Comments on: Not Getting Close to the Whole Story http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:05:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Dan Gillmor http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97369 Dan Gillmor Tue, 20 Feb 2007 20:37:46 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97369 Hmmm. A conference with corporate sponsors? :) Hmmm. A conference with corporate sponsors? :)

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97197 Seth Finkelstein Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:00:07 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97197 Umm, let's have a conference about it? If I had a workable solution, I wouldn't be writing obscure blog comments :-(. Umm, let’s have a conference about it?

If I had a workable solution, I wouldn’t be writing obscure blog comments :-(.

]]> By: Dan Gillmor http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97184 Dan Gillmor Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:42:10 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97184 So what is your solution? So what is your solution?

]]> By: Seth Finkelstein http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97106 Seth Finkelstein Tue, 20 Feb 2007 14:41:26 +0000 http://citmedia.org/blog/2007/02/18/not-getting-close-to-the-whole-story/#comment-97106 Hmm ... "... the fundamental points it raised essentially held up ..." Y'know, there's something here that really bothers me, in that I'm sure you sincerely believe what you've written, no aspersions intended ... however: It's an example of what I said back in: http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/10/09/payperpost-a-cancer-on-the-blogosphere-or-merely-semi-sleazy/ "Dan(G), my argument is that for anything beyond small stuff, transparency is woefully insufficient at best, and can be an excuse at worst (as in, sure, A. Lister is set up to make a zillion dollars from XYZ, but he’s *said* that, so, no problem). The arrangements where venture capitalists give a piece of a deal to academics strike me as *far* more of a problem than the microscams of cheap PR." Right, right, I know, you have a disclosure statement, it's there, but still ... it seems to me there's a problem here that's just not solved. Hmm … “… the fundamental points it raised essentially held up …”

Y’know, there’s something here that really bothers me, in that I’m sure you sincerely believe what you’ve written, no aspersions intended … however:

It’s an example of what I said back in:
http://citmedia.org/blog/2006/10/09/payperpost-a-cancer-on-the-blogosphere-or-merely-semi-sleazy/

“Dan(G), my argument is that for anything beyond small stuff, transparency is woefully insufficient at best, and can be an excuse at worst (as in, sure, A. Lister is set up to make a zillion dollars from XYZ, but he’s *said* that, so, no problem). The arrangements where venture capitalists give a piece of a deal to academics strike me as *far* more of a problem than the microscams of cheap PR.”

Right, right, I know, you have a disclosure statement, it’s there, but still …
it seems to me there’s a problem here that’s just not solved.

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