Comments on: Another day, another blogger fight http://blackrimglasses.com/2008/12/13/another-day-another-blogger-fight/ Music + Technology + Random Nonsense from the Music Industry, by Ethan Kaplan Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:18:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Craig McGill http://blackrimglasses.com/2008/12/13/another-day-another-blogger-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-192526 Craig McGill Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:11:26 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/12/13/another-day-another-blogger-fight/#comment-192526 Ethan, doubling down may be the norm but there's a couple of dangers there: 1) By doing so, it becomes the norm and therefore standard practice instead of companies going 'here's the workload, we need x amount of employees'. 1b) When the recession is over, everyone is still expected to do all the hours. 2) Working crazy hours may be OK for people without families but the family guys like to play with children. Ethan, doubling down may be the norm but there’s a couple of dangers there:

1) By doing so, it becomes the norm and therefore standard practice instead of companies going ‘here’s the workload, we need x amount of employees’.

1b) When the recession is over, everyone is still expected to do all the hours.

2) Working crazy hours may be OK for people without families but the family guys like to play with children.

]]> By: Ian Betteridge http://blackrimglasses.com/2008/12/13/another-day-another-blogger-fight/comment-page-1/#comment-192492 Ian Betteridge Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:29:45 +0000 http://blackrimglasses.com/archives/2008/12/13/another-day-another-blogger-fight/#comment-192492 Remember, blog-fighting IS Mike's business. What is TechCrunch but one long opinion column? It's Loic and everyone else that's silly to get involved with someone who doesn't care about being right, but will never admit their wrong - as long as it gets page views. As for the work-life balance thing: a lot of the "start ups" I've known behave in far more irresponsible ways financially than most dour, dull corporations. Things like proper expense management and justification of items like business travel often don't exist in VC-funded start ups - or at least, didn't until the VCs started waking up to the fact they had to get returns a couple of months ago. And don't get me started on the "if you build it they will come" mentality of Web 2.0 start ups, who often have no clear revenue stream beyond either "and then we'll sell to Google" or "and then we'll run ads". Remember, blog-fighting IS Mike’s business. What is TechCrunch but one long opinion column? It’s Loic and everyone else that’s silly to get involved with someone who doesn’t care about being right, but will never admit their wrong – as long as it gets page views.

As for the work-life balance thing: a lot of the “start ups” I’ve known behave in far more irresponsible ways financially than most dour, dull corporations. Things like proper expense management and justification of items like business travel often don’t exist in VC-funded start ups – or at least, didn’t until the VCs started waking up to the fact they had to get returns a couple of months ago.

And don’t get me started on the “if you build it they will come” mentality of Web 2.0 start ups, who often have no clear revenue stream beyond either “and then we’ll sell to Google” or “and then we’ll run ads”.

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