Setting the Record Straight on My Purchase of www.nytpick.com
I’m posting this just because the article that mentioned me in depth about possibly being behind the NYTPicker blog is wrong, funny, but wrong. The ASSME blog has not posted my comment as of 6:00AM EDT about 36 hours after I submitted the comment so I think it best to make sure my response is somewhere online. I even contacted the editor Sheila McClear who said she would check on it. This is the way their page displays regarding my comment.
I really think the author of the post Steve Huff has taken a satirical approach to the piece. All the same as the guy about whom he is attributing a blog which is about a major international newspaper, I feel compelled to set the record straight.
As a person who counsels companies about understanding the web, I believe my actions are the best counsel in this case. I don’t want Huff’s false premise to stand and gain digital credibility, yet my perception is it is a piece that was done more in the spirit of humor than a factual milestone. Therefore my response is in a similar tone, and those who know my writing on Media Bullseye know I take joy in coaxing a smile out of readers.
So enjoy this post which in large part appears here because I think it necessary not to be absent from this digital record for in this case I am certain of the facts. The smaller and italics type is copied from the response page after submitting the comments.
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This is a good one, I mean classic conspiracy theory stuff. Tell me Steveo, are you still looking for the pictures of Neil Armstrong stepping foot on the Nevada desert laughing his ass off, “One small step for man. OH no guys I can’t go through with this.” Are you wondering why Armstrong caved? Yeah me too.
Ok Ok, It’s obvious you don’t know me. Want to? , Podcasts back to February 2005, hundreds of blog posts and comments on other blogs, 8,483 Tweets (Like twice what you have and I hate to think what that says about my life) , Facebook, LinkedIn. Oh you never call, you never write, to ask me, “Hey Al what’s with your name as the originator of the NYTpick.com domain a couple of years ago?
I would not have either, you’d have ended up with a boring story like the real reason I registered http://www.NYTPick.com
The real reason was a friend of mine wanted to do a Sunday night conversation podcast of what we thought were interesting articles in that day’s New York Times. Why the New York Times? We appreciate journalism and outside of the Jayson Blair thing,http://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/11/national/11PAPE.html I was a loyal New York Times reader, I cancelled my subscription because of that credibility body blow, nothing to do with not wanting the news on processed trees.
The conversations we thought would be fun never got off the ground. My buddy and I have active families, spending time in the office editing a podcast on Sunday night wasn’t something we could pull off. I let the domain expire.
Now that that’s settled, Steve you write some entertaining stuff even if it is a bunch of Bull. In this wild west of new journalism as long as you spell the name right and get the links for the right SEO phrases, I could care less and you did thanks!
Hey we should do a podcast together about… on second thought, that won’t work.
All the best,
Albert Maruggi
The man behind the man behind the curtain.
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