Yep, I’ve suffered a bout of grumpy old blogger syndrome. No, I’m not claiming my blog was the first one, but this thread at 901am got me started. The new owners of The Blog Herald (no link love anymore) took it upon themselves to remove my name from the author column at the bottom of the site (note they’ve since removed it all together). Yes: they can do as they please, it’s there site now, but personally I found it a slight against me, 3500 posts, many of which I’d think would still drive large amounts of traffic to the site…indeed I still find old things I’ve written at the site when I’m looking for things on Google, on a regular basis.
I’ve done nothing wrong to the new owners, indeed I covered the buy positively and even participated in some of the conversation about how the buy is representative of an ascendant Pinoy blogosphere…and yet I get removed. Matt Craven, the previous owner *ALWAYS* showed respect (BTW Matt, if you’re reading this, what are you doing now?) and I was happy to return it in droves, the new mob however seem to be about as reliable as a pack of galahs. Indeed, do they want a fight? Pissing off my mates like Krug doesn’t help. Maybe I might consider doing something in the blogging space again. It won’t be another Blog Herald, but something newer, something unique, and something that will whip some ass! 🙂
Duncan — I’m not sure exactly what happened with Dave Krug’s post, but I think we were able to resolve most of those issues amicably. I certainly have the utmost respect for him — and *you*.
Not putting up your name to honor the legacy you’ve left us was a terrible mistake. The reasons why it was done is pretty immaterial, but your and Matt’s name are going up right now.
Yes, we’re green at this, and yes, we’ve made some mistakes. But we’re also going to do everyhing we can to learn from them, and take the time to make it right.
Sincerely,
Tony “I’m not a fighter, I’m a lover” Hung.
They’re not very reliable, galahs.
Duncan, I’d like to second what Tony said and profusely apologize for offending you- it was not intended. I have the greatest respect for you and the legacy that you have built with the Blog Herald. What happened was that our current author list was getting so long, that we needed to move the older authors to the archives- where their names, with posts written, appeared. You and Matt were supposed to be an exception to this- and have dedicated pages in the “about” section- which has now been rectified, and will be expanded on with the new design. Absurdly, right now we can’t seem to implement “view more entries…”, for example, in any archived category – be it by month, topic or author.
Anyway…yes, we’re unreliable galahs…I just wanted to express the fact that no malice or disrespect towards you was intended. And as a footnote, I was surprised you were not in the list of “friend links” at BH- so that has been corrected as well now.
Cheers.
“the new mob however seem to be about as reliable as a pack of galahs”
Does this extend to all the new writers at BH? C’mon, Duncan, don’t make me dislike you again 😉
BTW is it all resolved because I see that BH is still in your blogroll.
I note that they have also deleted me from the author list as well.
Matt
Matt- the left column at the footer has the current authors, which is very long- and stretches the design unharmoniously as is- while you and Duncan are in the right side column. We have tried to do this as sensitively as possible- obviously not well enough not to offend, though. All the other older authors are also in the archives, with their posts. Please let me know what you feel we should be doing, given the fact that even more writers are set to join. Hopefully, the new design will remedy this.
Different point of view from that post. Interesting to say the least.
Different point of view from that post. Interesting to say the least.
Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.
Interesting post. I have made a twitter post about this. Hope others find it as interesting as I did.