Ratings right, who cares? And

Ratings right, who cares? And still we look. And are pleasantly surprised to have reached #25.

Narwal are sending me a new comp. No questions asked. That’s big of ’em.

So I’m off today to meet an old friend who used to run an American fanzine for the man. When I first met her IRL, she was on holiday in Dublin with her parents and I had to walk her home to her hotel – she was that young. Now she’s done film school in New York and works at Nickelodeon and is doing Europe by car, dropping in on auntie prol.

Thing is, I don’t really

Thing is, I don’t really care about the coffee at Denny’s, cause I don’t have coffee for breakfast. :-) Cup of tea, thanks. What I care about is the hash browns… and the pancakes… Note to self: must visit America in 2001.

I keep adding logs to the drop down menu. Pretty soon I will be reading logs all day. Oh hell, I already am.

I’m having a (civilised) argument

I’m having a (civilised) argument with someone running an on line business promoting Irish ‘art’ (i.e. stuff you must buy) in America. They organise chats with Irish musicians on Yahoo, trying to direct traffic to his site. After the chat, the transcripts are posted to the site. In the case I’m speaking of, we were repeatedly promised the transcript would be up a certain day, but it took weeks. We complained about the state of the transcript, because it was (and still is) incomplete with many typos. We were told there was no money to ‘hire a professional typists’ and that they ‘prefer to publish the transcripts as they happened’. (It took me about 15 minutes to clean the transcript up, correct typos, add missing info that I’d jotted down during the chat, and then post it to the artist’s website How difficult is that?)

Anyone who has been to a chat with an artist they admire will understand the importance of a correct transcript. If half the answer to one of your questions is missing it’s very frustrating. I also think it is a lack of respect towards the artists involved.

I’ve tried to explain to them that having all these crappy transcripts on the site actually reflects badly on the company but I was told: The first priority is making sure customers are happy. Second, is raising capital, third, is driving traffic to the site, fourth is adding new products and it’s only 5th, that maintaining and improving the site comes in. Remember… they are trying to run a *on line* business. How short sighted is that?

All you can do is laugh, I guess. Maybe I’ll send them a copy of Siegel’s Futurize your Enterprise.