Second Thoughts

Meet Jim Griffin, Music Mogul

In my experience, people like this need a quick trip to my blog where their nasty geek literalism and bullying can be put on display. Apparently this guy thinks he is a very big deal, and may actually be "widely known in small circles" or maybe even an actual big deal. So what? That doesn't mean he and his friends can't be publicly and sharply criticized.

So I oblige here:

Correspondence with Jim Griffin

From: "Jim Griffin" <griffin@onehouse.com>
To: <dyerbrookme@juno.com>
Subject: Who are you?
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:01:03 -0500

I can't readily determine your identity, which is important to me as I
consider your attack on Cory Doctorow.

When I know who you are, I may read it.

Thanks,

Jim

From: dyerbrookme@juno.com [mailto:dyerbrookme@juno.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 11:21 AM
To: griffin@onehouse.com
Subject: Re: Who are you?

The real question is: who are you, and why do you need to harass me in this
manner?

My critique of Cory Doctorow is valid, I stand by it, and it is much needed.
You don't require "my identity" to consider valid arguments. If you do, I
suggest you retreat to your friends on Facebook and listen only to your
little circle.

The Internet is a big place. Go somewhere else if my blog makes you unhappy.

I don't require you to read my blog, however *you* are. And I'm able to use
Google; apparently you are not.

Like Doctorow, you apparently make fees on lectures and consulting, so you
personally can afford to disseminate the gospel of "free" as a "business
model" -- if that's what you do.

Prokofy

 

From: "Jim Griffin" <griffin@onehouse.com>
To: <dyerbrookme@juno.com>
Subject: RE: Who are you?
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 12:13:17 -0500

Prokofy Neva:

How could following your instructions possibly be considered harassment?

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/about.html: "To get to know me write
dyerbrookME@juno.com rather than google witch-hunting me : )"

Let's be clear:

1. You insulted me with false, self-induced harassment claims;

2. Asserted I am incapable of Google use;

3. Inferred that I have a little circle of friends around Facebook;

4. Subjected me to your own "google witch-hunt" (which you ask others to
spare you);

5. Still worse you suggested I support a "free" business model (I am
regularly an expert witness of music monetization for the music industry).

I like to consider the source before I read. I did you the favor of
respecting your published request that those who want to know more about you
should do precisely what I did: Write you at the address I wrote you. You
were right: Having written you, I now know all I need to know about you.

I could not possibly care less what you think, will not be reading further
anything you write and have added you to my email filter.

Good riddance,

Jim Griffin

***

As you can see from his site, this guy makes his living on lectures and consulting. He very much believes in the "open collaborative tools" Kool-Aid. He's the former techologist for Geffen records. Judging from this blog (apparently summarizing a talk he did) and other writings, he believes that the music industry can't charge for content in the old way, and it has to have new models, and people have to pay voluntarily.

I like people who make those claims to be confronted with the fact that they themselves don't make their living that way, and live on consulting and lecture fees spouting their gospel about making other people live the voluntary life.

 Imagine, writing a bullying email as he did at the outsite implying that "not knowing my identity" is somehow an obstruction to not taking a critique seriously.

What does he expect with a demand like this, to determine if my brothers runs the RIAA or my sister is a telecom investor or I'm related to Sarah Palin? What on earth does the little snide geek mind anticipate with a claim like this -- that they can't evaluate my critique until they "know who I am"? Um, does finding out that I'm a Russian translator living in New York City with two kids add to their appreciation of my critique, or invalidate it? Probably the latter lol.

I stand by the right of people to make SL avatars, keep them anonymous, and blog under those names.

What does a little freak like that expect, somebody is going to write back to him and grovel?!

Nope, publicity is the best weapon with a nerd like this, and I ensure it.

There's an important conversation to be had about how to monetarize music online, but it can't be likely had with him. His mind is snapped shut, and he is a devotee of the geek religion and the gospel of "free" -- except, of course for himself. If he *is* for paid content, he has enough other jargonized writings around about "open" this and "collaborative" that that he imagines that this paying is going to be accompanied by giveaways, or involve more "sharing" than in fact I think workers should be forced to do.

 

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Thankfully, There Will Always Be a Mainland. But Will There Always Be a Jack Linden?

Rumours are flying this Thanksgiving weekend that Jack Linden is getting the axe.

This is like 4th hand already. It goes like this:

o not effective immediately -- he's working out "an arrangement"

o he told an ex-Linden

o that ex-Linden told an inworld resident

o that inworld resident began gabbing

etc.

He's still in the People list, with his trademark profile poem, which I've never been able to tell is a song by some obscure rock band or his own creation:

So here we are, floating free
a stream of bytes and bits
and visual tricks, a digital you and a virtual me.

We burn so brightly, don't you see,
the old man himself hath no power so absolute
as we wield here so freely.

Kneel before the Metaversity.

Jack has not changed his profile since 2004, when he was "a wee lad" and befriended the cool kids Barnesworth Anubis and Ingrid Ingersoll, and they made some old lady avatars pushing shopping carts, and he put on an Alienware t-shirt (or something, some black punk tee) and photographed himself standing in the background with them in the foreground, and there it stuck, low these 6 years. Jack is about 2 months younger than me.

Well, Jack isn't exactly on my Christmas card list, but it does seem sad that he'd be leaving. I don't experience the sheer hysteria and malice that people in Concierge have for him because they blame him for the real estate business tanking, search messing up (he's in charge of search as a "product") etc. I actually think the search clusterfuck wasn't so much him as some ideological engineering Lindens, and he just went along with it, but I wasn't there, I don't know.

Jack is resented for the Atlas program (the deep discounts for the large buyers of sims).

I have a quotation from Jack on my profile:

"Jack Linden: thankfully there will  always be a mainland.  v"

Elsewhere in the news, an alt who said he was an alt of "an avatar that would otherwise never have the chance to have fun in SL" suddenly sent me chickens in transport boxes.

Their names were:

newspaper, Rabid (a scarce), Peggy, Orangina and "unnamed".

I like that -- "newspaper" was black and white -- and read all over.

The scarce promptly killed Peggy. Sad, that. I had left him with the others on the theory that usually the scarce only kill other males although I know they sometimes kill females. Now he's for sale, the old mutt.

There may be signs here. This may be significant.

 

 

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