Comments on: How NOT to handle blog comments

By: Faggot66

Faggot66 — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:58:48 +0000

You asked, I provided the data. ,

By: Tiny

Tiny — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:03:18 +0000

I love comments

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 01:27:23 +0000

I commented on the original Wired blog post and here is my take on the following uproar: The point is that Chen was responsible for sloppy journalism, sloppy fact finding and a sloppy choice of subject. Why write about something you know absolutely nothing about? I never questioned the poor headline or the hit baiting contents (after all, it is Wired, and we are all getting used to their over the top style of journalism). I commented because I wanted to give the opinion of people on the ground here in Japan, people who have never heard of Wired or touched an Apple computer but do own an iPhone. From this huge wealth of source material (hundreds of thousands of Japanese users), he didn't manage to pull more information? He didn't manage to persuade his editor to give him a couple more days to do some research? Chen's response was pretty poor as well. After being attacked by just about everyone (the people he quoted, iPhone lovers, iPhone haters, etc) he still claims he did nothing wrong and that the readers misread his article.

His action reminds me of the guy driving down the highway listening to the radio being intrrupted by a special announcement:

"We'd like to warn people driving down Highway 55 that there is a madman driving in the wrong direction. Take care!"

To which the man snarkingly responds: "One?! There's hundreds of them!!!"

Way to go Chen.

By: pxavierperez

pxavierperez — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:00:34 +0000

Chen did screw up. In his original published article he fabricated a quote and had it attributed to a real person. Twice. That is unethical and in some countries basis for litigation. And even now Chen has yet clarify nor address that wrong doing.

Can you imagine what the reaction would be if I were to pull a quote from Hitler then say it was from Gandhi?

If you read the comments from Digg or Wired, the majority of them were spraying insults to Japanese people, some were directed to Nobi/Hirata and Chen is purely responsible for it.

So yes, Chen did screw up.