Scoop Blogging and 100 Bloggers

A funny thing happened to me the other day.
I was a having a (private?) chat with Cameron, inviting him to write for 100 Bloggers.
Johnnie Moore has invited me, and I in turn have invited Cameron to write, and he's now invited Mick.

I invited Cameron in an MSN Messenger conversation, which unbeknown to me, he was recording and then published in his weblog, I've been invited to write 2 page of a book.
Very Funny!  But just like a Scoop.

What concerns me is my private conversation being taken out of context, and I didn't know at first that Cameron was going to publish it.
So this is what I want to say;
1. It's exciting and daunting at the same time to have that done to you.
2. I am now more guarded in what I say to Cameron privately, because I don't know if he'll publish it.  Weblogs and Podcasts are one thing, but private chat is another.  But I'm not so naive that I can't expect any opinion I express about someone or something not getting back to them.
3. I owe Jennifer Rice an apology.  She's not a "Babe" (well actually I think she is looking at her photo!), and I have no idea if she's "Right Wing" What prompted me to say that was my own prejudice in reading an entry she posted nearly a year ago, And I'm a Citizen....Why?.
4. "Sucking up to Mark Cuban" is my English way of saying well done.  It had occurred to me to invite a well known blogger such as Chris Locke or Rageboy (same person), or Zoe - My Boyfriend is a Twat.  I'd already suggested to Cameron a while back that Mark Cuban would be a great person to get on the G'Day World podcast. So getting Mark Cuban on 100 bloggers is excellent Jennifer, Good on Yer, and I have no idea if you know him or invited him cold.

I love weblogs and the internet.  It cuts the bullshit out of the way.  However if it starts to move in the direction of trying to get "Scoops" then people aren't going to be so open, and we end up being like the conventional media where nothing is spoken and nothing is reported, because everyone is frightened of being quoted out of context, or they deliberately leak something to serve their own purposes.

So Cameron, when is our next little chat?
And I suggest a G'Day World podcast with you, me, Mick, Jennifer Rice, Mark Cuban, Zoe and Rageboy, fighting it out.  Get it sorted.

Comments

[Cameron Reilly]

Dude! Sorry if posting the IM conversation upset you! I thought it was a funny conversation and didn't think you'd be this cut. C'mon, it's not like anyone reads my blog. But anyway, my sincere apologies. It won't happen again (to you... everyone else is fair game). As for the idea of getting all of us on the show... sounds great to me! Set it up! :-)
How can I make it up to you? A free G'Day World T?

[Nicole Simon]

I do recheck those things to see if they are okay most of the times. But of course, the simple 'can I blog this?!' leads to more holding back also.

Problem with qouted IM - the tempo is missing in which things are answered, and that is an important part of the conversation too. I figured, that is why I use smileys and things like *grrr* etc very frequently - to express the underlying tone of a written word otherwise not noticed.

Because if you are in chitchat with someone and this text is posted later, you will loose that undertone known to both parties at the time it was typed.

[Tony Goodson]

It was a funny conversation and well worth publishing except it talked about other people. Next time we can do it knowing it will be published and it can be game on!!

[RageBoy]

You rang?

[jennifer rice]

Tony, I'm so glad you wrote this. I was wondering why you wouldn't want Mark in the book; his inclusion will bring a lot more visibility! I think Scoble's going to join the project as well, which is quite exciting. The only thing to which I took offense was the 'right-wing' accusation! (I'm actually a mix of right & left depending on the subject, but that's another conversation for another day...). Anyway, I really got quite a good laugh out of Cameron's post; no harm done.

[jennifer rice]

Oh, and BTW... I invited Mark 'cold' but we do have a mutual friend who gave me an official referral.

[Cameron]

Jennifer, to make it up to you, how about you come on the show and we can discuss Atlas Shrugged, your blog, and your politics? :-)

Thanks for being cool about the IM. Sincere apologies for the offence.

Cameron
cameronreilly@gmail.com

[shannon]

Interesting chain of events unfolding here....
I thought it was a humourous conversation, but it was up to me the decide the context in which it was held. And therein lies the danger with publishing "private" conversations. It's up to the third party to decide how to "take" what is said.... Because I read Tony's blog regularly, I "know" him, his sense of humour and his turn of phrase. I am not as familiar with the other players though. So I checked out to see if Jennifer was a "babe" aswell as Camerons site...
I wonder what my take would have been if I didn't know anyone?