Comments on: On Business Blogging and Character: Panasonic Redux http://www.contentious.com/2005/10/31/on-business-blogging-and-character-panasonic-redux/ Amy Gahran's news and musings on how we communicate in the online age. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:38:23 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: piero n9 http://www.contentious.com/2005/10/31/on-business-blogging-and-character-panasonic-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-45712 piero n9 Tue, 29 Nov 2005 07:49:52 +0000 #comment-45712 Great work TOTALLY WITH YOU..... The expectation for this camara is becoming something way beyond normal..... if panasonic doesnt deliver what they are selling and stories like the one you are unfolding start to come out, Im sure many of us, potential buyers fill never go back to panasonic products.... Here are some links that unfold a story I think your readers should read... I not trying to get people to hate panasonic but instead to make aware of what we want....I think many of us specially want panasonic to understand that we filmakers are ready for stuff like this.... story.... http://www.innomind.org/articles/PANASONIC_AG-HVX200.htm links ... http://www.eidomedia.com/hdve/ http://www.eidomedia.com/hdve/ziess_fuji.htm Great work TOTALLY WITH YOU….. The expectation for this camara is becoming something way beyond normal….. if panasonic doesnt deliver what they are selling and stories like the one you are unfolding start to come out, Im sure many of us, potential buyers fill never go back to panasonic products…. Here are some links that unfold a story I think your readers should read… I not trying to get people to hate panasonic but instead to make aware of what we want….I think many of us specially want panasonic to understand that we filmakers are ready for stuff like this….
story….
http://www.innomind.org/articles/PANASONIC_AG-HVX200.htm
links …
http://www.eidomedia.com/hdve/
http://www.eidomedia.com/hdve/ziess_fuji.htm

]]> By: Richie Carey http://www.contentious.com/2005/10/31/on-business-blogging-and-character-panasonic-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-41039 Richie Carey Tue, 01 Nov 2005 13:36:22 +0000 #comment-41039 Great thread Amy, keep it up! Richie Great thread Amy, keep it up!

Richie

]]> By: doug http://www.contentious.com/2005/10/31/on-business-blogging-and-character-panasonic-redux/comment-page-1/#comment-41027 doug Tue, 01 Nov 2005 04:32:32 +0000 #comment-41027 <blockquote>How credible can an artificial persona like �Tosh Bilowski� possibly be?</blockquote> Exactly. I blog with a good friend and use just my first name. And I understand that a lot of bloggers don't even use their real names to blog. And if Tosh Bilowski had simply been a pseudonym for some engineer at Panasonic who was passing on authoritative info I wouldn't have blinked. But the guy doesn't even exist, and Panasonic wasn't up front about it. My favorite part of your post though were the emails. Yikes! <blockquote>Hi Amy, This Blog is a point of communication with a group of people within Panasonic Broadcast. It is unfortunate that you find the need to be contentious.</blockquote> and <blockquote>Hi Amy, The reason we are not posting your commentary is because we do not have to. ... We do not have to run it like any Blog or Website that you have seen before, <b>it will be run the way we choose to run it</b>...</blockquote> Indeed!

How credible can an artificial persona like �Tosh Bilowski� possibly be?

Exactly.

I blog with a good friend and use just my first name. And I understand that a lot of bloggers don’t even use their real names to blog. And if Tosh Bilowski had simply been a pseudonym for some engineer at Panasonic who was passing on authoritative info I wouldn’t have blinked. But the guy doesn’t even exist, and Panasonic wasn’t up front about it.

My favorite part of your post though were the emails. Yikes!

Hi Amy,

This Blog is a point of communication with a group of people within Panasonic Broadcast. It is unfortunate that you find the need to be contentious.

and

Hi Amy,

The reason we are not posting your commentary is because we do not have to.

…

We do not have to run it like any Blog or Website that you have seen before, it will be run the way we choose to run it…

Indeed!

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