Comments on: Giambalvo vs. Newhouse vs. Local Bloggers

By: Hoopla

Hoopla — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:23:37 +0000

Scot…

MODE’s Facebook page is called “MODE Magazine”.

Care to clarify?

By: JUNKARTISTS

JUNKARTISTS — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:47:35 +0000

Scot Giambalvo needs to be step away from his computer and go back home to the Coal Region.
His publication is for businesses that feed him for free.

Nothing about the content of MODE is culturally or cutting edge.

And he ALWAYS has an answer to every flaw found.
That’s when you know someone is LYING.

By: Anniken

Anniken — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:32:09 +0000

I certainly won’t be giving away free writing for a for profit newspaper. Since I make my living by the word, that would be silly.

By: floor9

floor9 — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:01:49 +0000

Jonathan, I agree wholeheartedly with your mentality. It’s exactly why I started blogHarrisburg. I don’t make any money from the site; its sole purpose to promote the local blogging community. We were just talking today about bringing back semi-regular local blogger meetups. We’ve done them a few times before with the blogHarrisburg crowd and they’ve always been fun and productive, so we’re going to have a few that are open to anyone in the area with a blog. I’ll be posting details over on bH (and I’m sure Jersey will be mentioning them as well).

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:51:55 +0000

I’ve met Scot a few times but never knew much about him. But my first instinct was that I didn’t completely trust him.

On a related note. Back in the day of the Harrisburg Blogger Meetups I had the chance to personally meet several of the local bloggers. It was actually a lot of fun and I wish Ross was still around to host these. But after we had a few of these meetups, the Patriot News showed up and started asking lots of questions. Asking if there was any interest in blogging on their web site and talking about how they really wanted to hear “our” point of view on topics.

That really kinda pissed me off. And let me tell you why. The Patriot News makes money from advertising. And so does Scott from MODE. Sure MODE may be free, but you’re getting money from advertising, otherwise you wouldn’t waste your time. If I am going to write/blog about something, I will do it on my own site. If the Patriot News wants me to blog about something on their site… they’ll need to pay me. I am not about so spend my effort spilling out my thoughts on a topic and let others make money off it.

And I will agree with floor9, print is dead. Why would I bother picking up something in print when I can read it in my RSS reader and not waste a bit of paper?