it’s not only rock’n'roll baby! – about rudeness online
I think this story is extremely frigtening, because it really shows that sometimes you create sensations as a blog, just to be able to talk about something.
I stopped reading Techcrunch for good a while back because of well.. excuse me.. Mike Arringtons blogpost about “european” vs. “american” entrepreneurs (just that he stated that all entrepreneurs in Europe under one roof, despite of culture etc makes me a bit well… mad).
And last week, Techcrunch did it again. Raising the question whether Last.fm (a webservice I love and admire) has handed user listening data over to the RIAA. Of course completely undocumented , stating it as a rumour. Last.fm stated on their blog that techcrunch was full of shit.
There’s a golden rule being taught from internet generation to internet generation. it’s called “don’t be rude”. It won’t get you anywhere in the long run for sure. Rudeness especially online doesn’t really go away – because it’s documented and people can really read between the lines, if you have created some content that is well documented or it’s just (excuse me) a bunch of bull.
So learn it from techcrunch. Don’t be rude, it’s like shooting yourself in the foot. the internet isn’t only rock’n'roll – I think this is such a vicious rumour to act upon, and it’s not in my good book that techcrunch decides to blog about it. No matter if it’s right or wrong, as long as it’s not well documented – I wouldn’t post it. Would you ?
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