I’m sorry for not following this blog in a timely manner.

Let me make something very clear with you. Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington, or a Dave Winer or any of these characters cannot scale into critical mass or even into video. Their world is text-based and perception with a bunch of followers who give them more credit than the real-world will ever entertain them.

I want you to truly understand what I just said. Because if you do, then you know that Dave Winer does not “own” or have anything but rhetoric as well as the rest of these characters.

These White geeks hardly set any “social norm”, please – as I stated before, they are unscalable beyond text and their little White Privilege circle.

I believe you are the one like many other people of color who choose to pull your chair up to their idiot box and choose to watch their content. Play around with them and think they are as important as they self-publish themselves to be.

As I stated before – we can scale up, these dork cannot – remember that and then you really know who truly owns this.

As an aside, it’s the flame-y aggressive tendency I’ve mentioned above that I think puts a lot of women off blogging or contributing to those forums. When white male geeks set the social norms they can sometimes alienate a lot of people, but are too often too privileged/socially inelegant to care. I run into this side of web culture a lot more than I’ll ever have anything to do with any VC types, but fascinating to hear the story from that side of things too.

And Google doesn’t work. Not for creators. Google wanted Family Guy’s Seth MacFarlane to create original work for the web. He was quoted as saying that even with his large team of lawyers and financial advisors, the payment plan was so convoluted he couldn’t understand it.

Think about how tv stars of new don’t get paid when their shows are on the Web and you’ll see how it doesn’t work.

Ciara

But I do understand what you’re saying, that you think it’s best to ignore them altogether. I think Amy’s point speaks well to the fact that yours is a strategy that doesn’t work for most of us. Sure, it’s easy for Winer to essentially say, “This field is ours, go start your own game.” But when you’re beholden to them for supplies like the football, goal posts, microphones, etc., that’s a lot easier said than done.

If you’re successful at building your own stadium without their support, more power to you!! I wish you well.

someone tell Dave, when he starts actually supporting the start-up community and not just tossing hyperbole because it happens to support his opinion (of a curmudgeon) then his shrugging of the shoulders in mock-disbelief of what it’s like to be a women in technology dealing with people like him can be taken seriously.

As to Jeremy’s point, when the circle jerk gets started, it’s hard for anyone else to be heard, meaning those females who do manage to be heard above the noise had to work even harder. In general, I agree with Jeremey’s sentiment that it’s mostly aimed at the VC-start-up community here, but again once you get the circle of the handful of males who make the most noise in the world all posting and helping each other suddenly doors open up, and most of those who get the attention and funding are male dominated (founder) companies. I will try to dig out the stat of % of males running the co’s who get funding, but a quick glance down the list of influentials shows it’s not so wrong.