DISQUS

Connected Internet: CES 2008: Part 3, Bloggers Behaving Badly

  • Michael Lankton · 1 year ago
    CES and CEDIA are huge for my website. Starting with CEDIA 2008 I will be attending these shows annually. Being able to produce show-related content that doesn't depend on sitting at home on the computer reading some press release is going to be huge for my site.

    If these idiots at Gizmodo set back the strides smaller websites have made being able to cover the consumer electronics tradeshows as regular press, they should be sanctioned. Not just by the show's organizing committee, but by readers as well. It's not funny when it's impeding my site's growth and profitability. It's not funny when they set back not just themselves but anyone like me who has an interest in covering the show. It's just not funny, period.
  • Kline · 1 year ago
    I totally agree with you. CES does not allow bloggers to attend as regular press, but they do have a special 'blogger' category that gets them access to a 'press room' of sorts (only not as fancy) and I'm not sure what kinds of press access they have to press conferences. However its certainly a step in the right direction, but after the shit pulled this year.. you have to wonder if the show is going to regret doing that, or if it will all just go forgotten next year.
  • Micah · 1 year ago
    A lot of times people will lump "bloggers" into one category. This sucks when some of them behave poorly, it reflects poorly on all of us bloggers.
    I think it's ridiculous of bloggers to just expect high-priced freebies because they get 500 visitors/day or whatever.
  • Kline · 1 year ago
    Well, I did not mean to lump all bloggers into the same category, but from these stories and many many other incidents, I do not think it is that far of a stretch to assume that bloggers left a bad impression at CES this year. One could expect it from small time blogs, but it's also the big time ones...
  • bert · 1 year ago
    I blog a lot and hence consider myself a blogger. Now seeing fellow blogger behave like spoiled Hollywood Celebs makes me feel small when I say Im a blogger.

    Perhaps they should spend some of their adsense millions on finishing school
  • Jalaj · 1 year ago
    Bloggers be they big names or small ones should behave well.
  • Joseph Plazo · 1 year ago
    And those that don't- slap em on the wrists. No matter how fat their adsense cheques are.
  • Not a Niche · 1 year ago
    It was funny, maybe! It's an old joke. But kid, think about the consequences. That was just near sided stupidity.

    Poor guy at the Moto presentation, and the technician guy of this presentation, he might got in really big trouble after the presentation and it wasn't even his fault.

    That left a bad taste about Blogger. :(

    By the way great post, unfortunately there are more idiots who own the world, just because they have a blog.
  • Kline · 1 year ago
    Well, I would prefer more than a slap on the wrists for those guys.

    It appears that just the individual in the gizmodo video will be banned for life from CES, but so far, gizmodo as a whole will be unpunished? WTF? I seriously doubt that he was a lone person in this, and that it was done without knowledge of anyone else at gizmodo. I would slap gizmodo with at least a full out ban on next years CES. They have enough to cover day to day it wont kill them, but it would show them that this shit isnt cool.
  • Dennis Bjørn Petersen · 1 year ago
    The most shocking part is that many of the comments Gizmodo got on this is "positive". People actually find this amusing. I guess the worst part is they are getting a lot of link juice because of this ;)
  • Shashank · 1 year ago
    So are all the bloggers whether beginner or old are allowed at CES. They should've done something to let in only the bloggers with some minimum criteria not all bloggers.
  • Kline · 1 year ago
    Well, Shashank, the problem was it was the 'bigger' bloggers at CES that caused the most problems