Alan Meckler, the CEO of JupiterMedia, alleged that a few weeks ago that business strategy behind LightReading.Com was his idea. Afterwards there was a hailstorm of comments and back and forth between him and allegedly the LightMedia guys in his blog. Most of the comments from my recollection were not glowing for Alan.
I noticed this week he has turned comments off. I think that is a real lose. Alan’s blog and the comments it inspired were a great source of ideas and discussion. It isn’t often you get to converse with someone who has so much insight and willingness to be frank in his opinions. The comments provided a central place for everyone to ruminate over his thoughts and some of the comments were worth a reading by themselves.
I doubt Alan turned the comments off due to not liking criticism in his own blog. Alan has been blogging a long time and I am sure he expected some of that. I would like to know why he decided after running the blog all this time he decided to turn the comments off. At the very least a note that he was turning comments off for personal reasons would have been enough. As it is though it just looks bad, like he left us hanging after letting use read up to the last 10 pages of his novel.
Alan, if you happen across this, open your blog back up. It was a service to allow a centralized discussions concerning the thoughts you share with us. The way you left it, it just looks like you didn’t want to play with us anymore and took your ball home. Prove me wrong.
[edited - url was wrong to LightReading.Com ]
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Alan posted why he turn them off
He cited spam, totally understandable but that really sucks. :(
At least he is stil blogging I love reading what he has to say, its definitly an education. Lately I have taken to reading all his posts starting from the beginning.