Comments on: Techno-Files, or Anatomy of a Link-Bait Vanity Fair Story

By: Brad_King

Brad_King — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:44:18 +0000

Hey Jenny:

Thanks for reading.

I would say it went "mainstream" locally - but as I have said, this was already being discussed in national circles. That's how I first waded into it. So it went "mainstream" in the sense that local Cincy folks got riled up.

My main point with this, though, isn't about WHO started WHAT. It's the hometown newspaper, which is part of Gannett, somehow doesn't know what is happening at Vanity Fair, which is part of Conde Nast. Seems like a poor job of monitoring the national conversation about the city.

This is just one reason why people have less "need" for traditional media outlets.

By: Jenny Kessler

Jenny Kessler — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:27:54 +0000

I also thought it was interesting to watch the outrage unfold. I noticed TCM's post back in late January, and then was suprised to see it catch on again a few weeks later.

I'm taking a class on trend forecasting, and we learned about trends and how they tend to unfold on a curve. Seems like you and TCM were on the emergant end of the curve, and everyone else made it more mainstream.

So, congratulations, you trend-setter, you.

By: On A.A. Gill’s Response to Cincinnati [Vitriol Party] | The Cincinnati Man

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:02:56 +0000

[...] makes it sound like you could be an after-dark park flasher. Brad was, for the record, first. Here’s a timeline. These posts happened to drop on 1/26 (Brad’s) and 1/28 (TCM), and ours dropped so late [...]