Comments on: Why Calacanis Should Not Be Allowed to Speak at Conferences

By: vcvcvc

vcvcvc — Sat, 24 May 2008 19:36:05 +0000

Good post. Echoed my thoughts

By: Mani Karthik

Mani Karthik — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:53:07 +0000

Dude..I tried my best, but I can’t find a point to disagree with you. A very good read this one.

By: Tyr

Tyr — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:52:53 +0000

“Burning Bridges Like It’s the Cedar Village Riots,”

Haha, good one. Oh and also the part about Jason.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 06 May 2008 01:05:44 +0000

What did Craig say? I’d be interested to see his keynote and his comments about SEO, which I assume he had to talk about to make his speech have some relevancy. Craig’s List pages are def. easy to make climb the SERPS.

By: Terry

Terry — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:38:34 +0000

I’m still trying to figure out why Craig from Craigslist was a keynote at PubCon with no concern of SEO whatsoever.

Funny business at these SEO conferences.

By: Jeeb

Jeeb — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:17:55 +0000

I’d rather see a debate between him and an SEO than a keynote by him at conferences. That would be more interesting. It could be a Lincoln-Douglas style debate with no moderator. After the debate is over, then there could be the usual Q and A and people could go online and vote for who the winner is. There’s a more realistic chance of this happening than people boycotting the conferences because he’s there. And this would be just as satisfying because he would probably be made to look foolish.

By: David Wilkinson

David Wilkinson — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:20:51 +0000

@Doug Heil – Yah. Jason aint an SEO. So why the hell’s he talking at SEO conferences, pushing his own crap at these conferences and calling everyone who attends scamming, spamming losers?

His big directory (that’s all Mahalo is…) is goin’ down. I pity the investors who put their cash into the site.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 15:01:02 +0000

Ok. Fine. Point taken on the social media types. However most people do not EXCLUSIVELY promote their product. Most of his speech is a setup to plug Mahalo.
And while I know you don’t consider blackhat SEOs, and hence equate the situtations, reality begs to differ.

Google promoting/mentioning Google is one thing. They are relevant to the topic, as are most products that are “promoted” there. But Mahalo, not as much.
Tell me, in what world is Mahalo relevant to affiliate summit? Jason himself admits its not meant to take a large search volume from Google…so I see little room for the argument that it’s relevant.

Nice of you to show up though. I suppose after my bringing my argument to your forum, it’s only fair you do the same on my blog

By: Doug Heil

Doug Heil — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:43:45 +0000

He is not a SEO, but why is that a bad thing at a conference? I didn’t know all the speakers were SEO’s anyway? I don’t think so.

How about those who are social media types and who speak? They are not SEO’s either.

Further; I’ve heard and read that many speakers promote their products and services at the conferences. I don’t think that is nothing new. Heck; blackhats can pay for advertising and have their very own booth at conferences to promote their wares. I truly don’t get how that’s any different. To me, the conferences out there are simply marketeers promoting to other marketeers anyway. Giving the excuse that Jason should not be speaking because he is a SEO is simply not a credible excuse.

Matt Cutts or any other se rep speak at conferences and they also are promoting/representing their respective search engines. They are not SEO’s either.

By: Chris Guthrie

Chris Guthrie — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:18:44 +0000

I saw that video where he was making fun of other internet markters and bloggers.

Overall the guy just seems like a tool.

But I agree with many others have said. Posting about him benefits him more than it affects him negatively.