Comments on: How Jeff Jarvis got Thrown Out

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:24:27 +0000

Point is: Everything is debatable these days. Everyone has a blog or website. Nothing is SECRET. No meting of any organisation in any industry can be “closed” these days. Because they will always be someone in the room blogging (either live or not live, it doesn’t matter) about something in the meeting. Whether this is good or not. Is another question.

Oh, and whether Mr. Jarvis should be allowed to stay in the meeting after his talk or not is a very subjective question.

By: walter

walter — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 15:22:59 +0000

those opa member days are always closed, and i’d bet they told jeff what the drill would be in advance. he ended up being embarrassed, and because this is what he does, he wrote a long and whining post about it. jarvis needs people to ask him to speak– paid or non-paid– but he wants everything under his own terms, and if you do something he doesn’t like personally he becomes enraged. it’s pretty pathetic. organizations like the opa are trying to do what they need to do, and btw, jeff, they aren’t ENTIRELY filled with dumb “old” thinkers. otherwise, what would you have to be so mad about? maybe this will suggest to some that he is not the best person to give a platform to in the future.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:59:11 +0000

A private club held a private meeting. Big deal.

If Jarvis, an online publisher, wants to participate in the Online Publishers’ Association conference, he should cough up the membership fee like everybody else.