Well — or great minds think alike, either way, I’m thrilled!
Wired News, one of my favorite tech websites, had a post yesterday on the Best Blogfights of 2006 (via Steve Rubel) which seems a close adaptation of two posts I wrote last year:
Top 5 Blogosphere Smackdowns – July 06
Blogosphere Smackdown – Aug 06
The Wired News Top 5 and Marketing Nirvana’s Top 5 had two smackdowns in common:
1. Contenders: Amanda Congdon vs. Andrew Baron
2. Contenders: Jason Calacanis (Netscape) vs. Kevin Rose (Digg)
Here are the remaining 4 smackdowns from Marketing Nirvana that Michael Calore from Wired missed:
3. The LongTail Smackdown
Contenders: Lee Gomes (WSJ) vs. Chris Anderson (Wired)
4. The “Web 2.0″ Smackdown
Contenders: O’Reilly vs. Tom Raftrey
5. The Web Journalism Smackdown
Contenders: Robert Scoble vs. “The Irritant Journalist“
6. The Business Week Smackdown
Contenders: Journalists vs. Bloggers
Click on the title links above to view the Techmeme Discussions surrounding the fight/smackdown and click on the individual contenders to see what they had to say.
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Steve Rubel calls for a ceasefire to such petty politics and John Koetsier equates the blogosphere w/ high-school, but then c’mon, aren’t we allowed a few guilty pleasures.
My favorite web fight will be a toss-up between the O’Reilly fight and the Scoble fight. Scoble’s quote alone is priceless!
Most importantly:
Which of the above smackdowns did you enjoy the most and why?
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Hi Mario,
When are we going to get into a fight? 😉
I think the Congdon vs. Baron one was probably the most notable one. Perhaps we should let them slug it out & let the PPV proceeds go to charity? My money is on Congdon.
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Hey buddy,
I told you — we belong to the friends camp! No fighting here 🙂
Congdon definitely won that one, after leveraging her skills to get on ABC & HBO.
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Hi Mario,
We should have a fake fight:-0 Perhaps it would draw more attention to our blogs;-)
You vs.me
Jeremiah vs. Shel
Scoble vs. Arrington
All of the proceeds could go to Unitus! That is, if we actually made any money….
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Count me in. I don’t think J will be open to the idea, tho. And looks like Scoble is moving away from these blog smack downs as well 😦
Nevertheless, nice idea 😉
Damon,
Thanks for the heads-up on the C2.0 conference (on community!).
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Hi Mario,
I didn’t actually know about the conference until I checked my referrer log:) As I am not sure about when I return to Thailand, I can’t say if I can go to the event.
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Keep us posted, Damon.
Also, did you check my latest post on events. Let me know if you plan on attending any of these: https://mariosundar.wordpress.com/2007/01/08/wanna-meetup-at-upcoming-events-jan-07-events/
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Hi Mario,
I will most certainly try to attend at least one of the events. As you know, my life tends to be very flighty;-)
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Sounds great, Damon!
I look forward to seeing you at some of those events.
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Interesting post. I came across this blog by accident, but it was a good accident. I have now bookmarked your blog for future use. Best wishes Torrie
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