“The nerd ego is a dangerous thing” It’s not all that surprising that Stack Exchange founder Joel Spolsky felt compelled to take to the company’s blog last week to ask people to make the site a “welcoming, friendly place.” It’s not going to happen, but it’s not a shock that he would write it. In [...]
There’s a fine tradition among writers known as the puff piece. For the staffer, it fulfills the requirement that one produce something the medium can publish on a regular basis without requiring a lot of difficult investigation or critical thinking; for the freelancer, it is one more article one can add to the portfolio; and [...]
Spolsky and Company have announced the cancellation of their DevDays 2011 conferences due to poor pre-registration. I feel bad for them…my day job is with a conference planning firm and cancelling even a single-day/single-venue conference is a logistical and financial nightmare for all involved. Although I will confess it is nice to see hubris meet [...]
It’s not a big secret that Stack Overflow isn’t really oriented toward customer service. They exist to create “…a community-edited wiki of narrow, “long-tail” questions — questions that aren’t quite important enough to deserve a page on Wikipedia, but which come up over and over again.” This means that in some ways, they could care [...]
A couple of months ago, the good folks at Stack Overflow had a blog post that described “modern community building” as a way of highlighting a help-wanted ad for a job that sounded too good to be true: you got to read blogs and talk to members of their website and, if you survive for [...]
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