[Chicago] [Fwd: Any ChiPy plans for PyCon 2008?]

[Michael Tobis]

Peter's take on this is funny but it sort of misses the point, I think.

May saw a niche and occupied it. If he had the same skills you had he would
be doing something more like what you do, but he doesn't and he isn't, and
we are better off with somebody doing what he does rather than nobody. He is
a collector rather than a good filter (sort of like Slashdot). False
positives (reporting non-stories) is a cost of avoiding false negatives
(missing actual stories) and media that lean toward collection rather than
filtering serve a purpose.

Press releases also serve a purpose, whatever you may think of the press.

May should get one, as should every other local medium we can think of.
Crane's. The Reader. Hell, Chicago Magazine if we can manage to work Charlie
Trotter in somehow.

mt

On 12/7/06, sheila miguez <shekay at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 12/6/06, Peter Fein <pfein at pobox.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:36, sheila miguez wrote:
> > > Could someone put together an announcement type of email and send it
> > > to the Ron May Report? Something like: "Chicago in the running for
> > > PyCon" and make a case for how import it is for Chicago to be a leader
> > > in the tech industry la la la etc.
> >
> > Hmm, I hear he has interesting sexual preferences:
> > http://push.cx/2006/ron-may-fellates-goats
> >
> > #2 on google.  Nice, Harkins. ;)
>
> I agree about the writing style; I only skim those things. On the
> other hand, the startup I worked for managed to get a sweet deal for
> office space through that rag. Maybe it's a generation gap thing. The
> startup I worked for was started by older people. Could also be an
> asshole gap.
>
> "He doesn't know how to talk to geeks (the secret: politely, like anyone
> else)"
>
> Geeks are just as polite as everyone else. Ask yourself how polite
> everyone else is.
>
> --
> sheila
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