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A Matter Of Trust
Adam Curry: A Matter Of Trust
This is a really good piece. The quote below (without quoting the whole piece which I obviously will not do) doesn't do it justice, but I think it's powerful and it sums thinsgs up well.
"Blogging should be mandatory for every CEO. Screw insider trading disclosure, open up the walls that shrould Fortune's top 500 in secrecy. For never again will I trust the words of an analyst or spokeperson. if it doesn't come from the horses mouth, it just doesn't cut the mustard."
I should say I have been trusting Adam Curry more as time goes on.
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March 1st, 2002 - 13:38
At 04:27 PM 3/1/02 -0500, Jim Roepcke wrote:
>”Blogging should be mandatory for every CEO. Screw insider trading
>disclosure, open up the walls that shrould Fortune’s top 500 in secrecy.
>For never again will I trust the words of an analyst or spokeperson. if it
>doesn’t come from the horses mouth, it just doesn’t cut the mustard.”
>
>I should say I have been trusting Adam Curry more as time goes on.
What Curry suggests is impossible, however. CEO’s of publicly trade firms
have to be extraordinarily careful about what they say in public or risk
the wrath of shareholder lawsuits and other regulatory issues (I’m not sure
what he’s talking about with insider trading — that’s really not an issue
as far as CEO’s public comments).
March 1st, 2002 - 13:39
Jean Louis Gassee wrote an article each week in the Be Newsletter. They had a big fat honking disclaimer next to it, but it was there.
It’s doable, but yeah, obviously they can’t just blurt out their company’s secret plans.
Jim
March 1st, 2002 - 15:50
> Jean Louis Gassee wrote an article each week in the Be Newsletter.
>They had a big fat honking disclaimer next to it, but it was there.
And look where they are, gone.
While clarity of vision blogging has brought to some of tight blogging
communities of individuals is a good thing, it’s not a perfect fit for business
as it lives today. As manifested in certain blogging circles, it comes across
as a good thing. But in the dirty, nasty, real world that is business, it’s a
bit out of place. Not that it can’t be used, but a CEO bothering with it?
Is this a case of “when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail?”
-Bill Kearney
March 1st, 2002 - 16:04
At 06:56 PM 3/1/2002 -0500, Bill Kearns wrote:
>While clarity of vision blogging has brought to some of tight blogging
>communities of individuals is a good thing, it’s not a perfect fit for
>business
>as it lives today. As manifested in certain blogging circles, it comes across
>as a good thing. But in the dirty, nasty, real world that is business, it’s a
>bit out of place. Not that it can’t be used, but a CEO bothering with it?
I don’t think a CEO of a Fortune 500 company would have the time to blog. I
suspect shareholders would wonder why he or she wasn’t concentrating on
making them more money.