Comments on: My attitude defects laid bare

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 00:47:19 +0000

Y'know, given the context, I'm actually properly touched by the 'Getting a Whatley in' comment.

Best compliment I've had all year.

Cheers.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:47:19 +0000

Y'know, given the context, I'm actually properly touched by the 'Getting a Whatley in' comment.

Best compliment I've had all year.

Cheers.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:47:19 +0000

Y'know, given the context, I'm actually properly touched by the 'Getting a Whatley in' comment.

Best compliment I've had all year.

Cheers.

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:09:53 +0000

The only kind of waffle we like is Belgian. With cream.

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:55:36 +0000

I think Ewan's take on this addresses the salient point: This guy thought bagging Skype's attitude during a major outage was not appropriate. Actually, it was completely appropriate, and I'd reckon 99.999% of MIR readers agree. We are realistic about services - particularly 2.0 ones, which I lump Skype into, right or wrong - not having carrier-grade reliability. What we DO expect is that when things do go belly-up, they are a lot more forthcoming with the kind of reassurance that they are working their asses off to put it right. Call it getting a Whatley in. Someone who can read the zeitgeist, pick the words and get them out in real-time, across multiple media.

Skype clearly dropped the ball here. Ewan called them on it. Skype promote themselves as a business solution. Even though they disclaim their way out of getting sued (all Telcos do actually) that still doesn't excuse poor comms in a time of outage.

The irony of this line "I would much rather a company talk real with me. Rather than some PR guy blow smoke up my ass. No matter what is going on" is just superb, given the MIR team's almost single-handed campaign to rid the mobile industry of PR waffle and spin.

/m

By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:20:47 +0000

Deary me Sam, there's no need for sighing. My ego, you may rest assured, is supremely healthy. Now and again I pull out the odd critical one and publish it right there on the frontpage for all to see. You could have got it from the comment feed but, heck, I thought it deserved a full frontal. I'm not too sure if I should publish yours on to the frontpage though Sam. What d'ya think?

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:10:14 +0000

*sigh*

You do seem very sensitive to criticism. This isn't the first time that you have responded to a negative comment with an article. Is your ego really that fragile that you have react to every troll? It undermines the site for one thing- it's hard to take it seriously when it contains articles like this. Do yourself- and the site- a favour and indulge your petulance in private.