Six Apart: Wow, what a fool.

[icarus]

When I suggested LJ might dig itself to China, I was kidding. But Six Apart's VP anildash's response to the ValleyWag article (I take it the gossip hit an all-too-accurate nerve?) suggests China, and possible lift-off once LJ hits the other side.

Quote: 'Thanks and good luck to Brad -- can't wait to see what you do next. And a big hearty fuck-you to rumormongers who stir shit up just to demoralize people who do good work. If you don't have enough drama in your life, go make something that millions of people think is valuable.'

Because giving the gossipmongers more to gossip about is always a good idea. I've got to talk to my friends in PR. This is one for the textbooks.



P.S. The rumormongers in question are ValleyWag: Six Apart Fails To Spin and Valley Wag: Six Apart Funnels Donations to Backer's Pet Charities.

ETA: Oh yeah. Really bad idea to piss off the rumormongers.

Son of ETA: Aha. Apparently this is corporate politics (vagueness alert) aimed at screwing brad over. And reading through the comments on ValleyWag makes the motives of the commenters pretty damned clear. anildash's post is very stupid, but I don't like being manipulated by ax-grinders.

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[cheshyre]

The whole place has left the league far, far behind.

Folks were really excited yesterday when they started getting form-letter responses from Support promising something would be in lj_biz last night.

And yet there's still nothing new out of official channels.

If they weren't prepared to deliver, they shouldn't've made promises.


The sucky thing with everybody closing up shop and moving elsewhere is that backing up my LJ isn't enough. I've had fascinating discussions in many other journals, personal and community, and I don't want to lose those either...

[cheshyre]

And, lo, the lj_biz response has appeared. And it's already got 129 comments...