Speaking at Podcamp Montreal 2010
Funny story. The PodCamp Montreal people had a full schedule when someone bailed, they put out a call for speakers. I answered, thinking it'd be cool to speak again (after I paid my ticket, too!!) I asked my boss, Martin Ouellette, and a friend, Sylvain Carle, to help me to populate a talk on Social Media titled "Does Social Media Really Exists?" which, interestingly, derived from a 2 minutes discussion at Commun's HQ. Bottom line is, I'm speaking at PodCamp Montreal with Martin Ouellete and Sylvain Carle, Sunday at 10:30. Don't miss it. They made a cool badge that's really too big and so to have it render properly I need to put some text in this article, but I really have nothing more to say about it. It's going to be a debate. If you're thinking of attending, bring your opinions and your voice, because you will be asked to stand up for what you believe in! Hopefully this is long enough...
Marketers and SEO consultants: Give me a fucking break.
Alright, this will hit home to some of my readers, but fuck it, I won't stand for that shit. I work at a company that has as a main objective SEO, or in layman's terms, optimizing search results for a specific site or URL. I respect what they do as a company and as individuals, it's not my field and, even if I've judged it in the past, I made peace with it. While I do not approve some of the techniques which border blackhatness or ethical questionning, there's a market, there's a demand, and they provide the means to an end, which is perfectly fine. I've never done it for any of my sites, some of which had a million hits per month without SEO or advertising. I subscribe to the school of people who think that if you want good position in search engines, have a better product or a better content than the other guy -- but that's my personal take on it, and it's in no way profitable for anyone. All that to say that I understand the concept, I don't approve some of it, but I live with it and manage to respect people who do that for a living.
With that being said, one thing I won't fucking tolerate is people who I call friends commenting on my blog using SEO techniques. Fuck you. That's fucking insulting. This is my private blog, one that if you don't have anything to say, I want you to shut the fuck up. Don't pull that shit on me - I will ban your ass and not give one look back.
I'm not gonna make this a rant about SEO, the state of the web today, marketing or the company I work for. What had to be said has been said, and if you can't respect it, get the fuck out right this second.
Thank you.
Edit: wanted to add that after talking it over with the person in question, I hold no grudge and feel no animosity towards him.
