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Hey. My name is Russell Holliman. I'm a professional project manager by day, and one of the founders of Podcast Ready by night. This is my blog about life on the web, life in general, and random things I find here and there.



Mahalo Daily: The Video Podcast

When I first heard that Mahalo was making a video podcast I thought "well that sounds about as useful and entertaining as a podcast about Google services" - then I remembered that "entertaining" and "useful" haven't concerned others.

I saw their trailer though...


This made me laugh.

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posted by Russell @ 7:50 PM, , links to this post




Wow. Tough Crowd.

Jason Calacanis was the last speaker of the day on Friday. His presentation was billed as a discussion on spam, SEO's, and the pitiful state of both. It quickly turned into a Mahalo pitch and a demo. The thing is, this was no surprise.

But the crowd didn't take kindly to it at all. At one point early in the presentation, Winer jumped up yelling "conference spam" and informed Jason that he didn't appreciate the Mahalo pitch as a Gnomedex presentation.

The push back from Dave and others seemed to take Jason a little off guard, but he pressed on and finished the Mahalo demo. Its a good thing no one had any tomatoes - I really think they would have been thrown.

UPDATE: Winer's first comment, Jason's, and then Winer again.

The fact is, the Mahalo presentation wasn't very "Gnomedex" - it was a pitch. Its odd though that those seen as the greatest thought leaders in our industry aren't leaders.

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posted by Russell @ 7:24 AM, , links to this post