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<rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title>Paul Jacobson - Latest Comments in The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.disqus.com/</link><description>blogger. evangelist. maven</description><atom:link href="https://pauljacobson.disqus.com/the_guy_mclaren_debacle/latest.rss" rel="self"></atom:link><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:11:04 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673945</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I was using it in the context of euphemism. "correcting poor spelling" then, if we're going to nitpick. Either way, still lame.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">coda</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:11:04 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859428</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I was using it in the context of euphemism. "correcting poor spelling" then, if we're going to nitpick. Either way, still lame.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">coda</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 06:11:04 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859433</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Richard, as I pointed out to someone else last week, correcting someone else's typo on the web is pretty pathetic. And for you to dedicate an entire comment to it, on a blog which you say you don't read but do anyway, well, that's just sad. I find that particularly irksome.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">coda</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:11:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673950</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Richard, as I pointed out to someone else last week, correcting someone else's typo on the web is pretty pathetic. And for you to dedicate an entire comment to it, on a blog which you say you don't read but do anyway, well, that's just sad. I find that particularly irksome.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">coda</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 03:11:20 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673949</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Paul Jacobson, Journo or Muckraker? Maybe Onanism is the answer to your sexual frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the article here &lt;a href="http://www.trafficdepartment.co.za/default.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.trafficdepartment.co.za/default.asp"&gt;http://www.trafficdepartmen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guy McLaren</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:04:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859432</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Paul Jacobson, Journo or Muckraker? Maybe Onanism is the answer to your sexual frustration.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Read the article here &lt;a href="http://www.trafficdepartment.co.za/default.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="http://www.trafficdepartment.co.za/default.asp"&gt;http://www.trafficdepartmen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guy McLaren</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:04:32 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673951</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm the unfortunate individual who had the misfortune of ever crossing paths with the "Guy Maclaren deal" and falling for it. It's beyond ridiculous and pathetic but I am dumbstruck to think that anyone can seriously get away with things to the extent to which he is doing so on a semi-reputable business networking site like My Genius. He's having a field day and seems he has no interest in taking stock of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is how anyone intends to make money through him? By selling on his blogs? What does it matter where the blogs stand on Google? Who cares about the stuff he or his followers are writing about? Where does the big business or "food off his table" come into it? Somehow there just seems to be a lot of smoke but zero fire.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jeanne</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:33:58 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859434</link><description>&lt;p&gt;I'm the unfortunate individual who had the misfortune of ever crossing paths with the "Guy Maclaren deal" and falling for it. It's beyond ridiculous and pathetic but I am dumbstruck to think that anyone can seriously get away with things to the extent to which he is doing so on a semi-reputable business networking site like My Genius. He's having a field day and seems he has no interest in taking stock of himself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What I don't understand is how anyone intends to make money through him? By selling on his blogs? What does it matter where the blogs stand on Google? Who cares about the stuff he or his followers are writing about? Where does the big business or "food off his table" come into it? Somehow there just seems to be a lot of smoke but zero fire.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Jeanne</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:33:58 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673955</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Good point there Coda.  I wonder how much of Guy's traffic is from people looking for the actual traffic department?  I certainly see a lot of traffic coming in to one of my other blogs because of a couple posts I wrote on traffic fines.  That topic remains the single biggest traffic source.  Calling his blog "traffic department" must have that in mind ...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paul</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:06:02 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859436</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Good point there Coda.  I wonder how much of Guy's traffic is from people looking for the actual traffic department?  I certainly see a lot of traffic coming in to one of my other blogs because of a couple posts I wrote on traffic fines.  That topic remains the single biggest traffic source.  Calling his blog "traffic department" must have that in mind ...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paul</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 05:06:02 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673953</link><description>&lt;p&gt;web traffic? Is that not also traffic? Thats the problem with the sheep.  Can you not think out of the box. The road traffic department crossover is actually a pain in the arse because it seems people are stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yiou saw constructive criticsm, My God, Have you any sense?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">trafficdepartment</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:49:57 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859435</link><description>&lt;p&gt;web traffic? Is that not also traffic? Thats the problem with the sheep.  Can you not think out of the box. The road traffic department crossover is actually a pain in the arse because it seems people are stupid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yiou saw constructive criticsm, My God, Have you any sense?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">trafficdepartment</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 08 Sep 2007 03:49:57 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673959</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Guy, one question - why is your business url "&lt;a href="http://trafficdepartment.co.za" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="trafficdepartment.co.za"&gt;trafficdepartment.co.za&lt;/a&gt;" ? It screams of "spam"... sorry, I mean "scam"... because clearly your business has nothing to do with the traffic department and you're hijacking their name to increase Google click-through traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to take the huge amount of advice that has been handed your way over the past week, whether you like it or not, and build on it - there's nothing better than constructive criticism. And as someone with over 10 years of industry experience I think you can appreciate that. Prove me wrong.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">coda</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:23:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859440</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Guy, one question - why is your business url "&lt;a href="http://trafficdepartment.co.za" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" title="trafficdepartment.co.za"&gt;trafficdepartment.co.za&lt;/a&gt;" ? It screams of "spam"... sorry, I mean "scam"... because clearly your business has nothing to do with the traffic department and you're hijacking their name to increase Google click-through traffic.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My suggestion is to take the huge amount of advice that has been handed your way over the past week, whether you like it or not, and build on it - there's nothing better than constructive criticism. And as someone with over 10 years of industry experience I think you can appreciate that. Prove me wrong.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">coda</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:23:36 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673958</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It actually means wanker in that form, but then again why would someone that attacks a total stranger actually understand. I am glad I could educate you, if only a little.  I would prefer to use the epithet fuckwit but find it upsets people.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guy</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:34:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859439</link><description>&lt;p&gt;It actually means wanker in that form, but then again why would someone that attacks a total stranger actually understand. I am glad I could educate you, if only a little.  I would prefer to use the epithet fuckwit but find it upsets people.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guy</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:34:45 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859438</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Aaargh, sorry man! Always a problem commenting on somebody's site without reading the bio first. Humble apologies...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Charl van Niekerk</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:11:05 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673957</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Aaargh, sorry man! Always a problem commenting on somebody's site without reading the bio first. Humble apologies...&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Charl van Niekerk</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:11:05 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859437</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Guy, I actually had to look up that word "onanist".  According to my dictionary it means "masturbation" or "coitus interruptus".  Dude, you're a little obsessed with masturbation in your posts and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for not caring about my thoughts and opinions, that's ok.  You are in good company.  Plenty people don't really care what I have to say.  Mostly I keep going to amuse myself.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paul</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:06:06 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673956</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Guy, I actually had to look up that word "onanist".  According to my dictionary it means "masturbation" or "coitus interruptus".  Dude, you're a little obsessed with masturbation in your posts and comments.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for not caring about my thoughts and opinions, that's ok.  You are in good company.  Plenty people don't really care what I have to say.  Mostly I keep going to amuse myself.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paul</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 12:06:06 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673961</link><description>&lt;p&gt;How do you loose a case? Open it?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">wade</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:37:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859442</link><description>&lt;p&gt;How do you loose a case? Open it?&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">wade</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:37:55 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673960</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So you don't like my offering, so don't buy it. I don't like your thoughts and opinions but who actually gives a shit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't bother suing some onanist that disagrees with me, but the fuckers that defaced my client sites caused damage.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guy</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:20:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-5859441</link><description>&lt;p&gt;So you don't like my offering, so don't buy it. I don't like your thoughts and opinions but who actually gives a shit.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I wouldn't bother suing some onanist that disagrees with me, but the fuckers that defaced my client sites caused damage.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Guy</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 10:20:39 -0000</pubDate></item><item><title>Re: The Guy McLaren debacle</title><link>http://pauljacobson.org/2007/09/07/the-guy-mclaren-debacle/#comment-1673963</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Dude, I am an expensive lawyer and the problem with getting sued is that you never recover all your costs, even if you win.  It is often better to just stay out of court if you can.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Paul</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:02:23 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>