tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post8180438769623352934..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: PJM revenue model analyzedRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-17765667719098805892009-02-02T23:12:00.000-05:002009-02-02T23:12:00.000-05:00And yet I cannot help but notice that the folks wh...<EM>And yet I cannot help but notice that the folks who got played by Culture11 all seem eager to sing the praises of their doomed enterprise and their erstwhile employers,...</EM><BR/><BR/>That's exactly right. And you won't. We fully realize how fortunate we were. <BR/><BR/>For 8 months (we were online for 5), the investors of Culture11 paid me and my crew to write just about anything we wanted. It was the type of job where you wake up every day thinking, "Do they realize they are paying us to <EM>write</EM>? Don't they know we (and thousands of other people) are willing to do this <EM>for free</EM>!"<BR/><BR/>Sure, being out of work sucks. But I chose this career. Hopefully I can find someone else to pay me to write/edit. But if I don't -- if I have to go back to working in a factory in Missouri -- I'll look back on that time as one of the most incredible opportunities of my life. <BR/><BR/>The fact that we live in a country and an era when people like me -- people who have, at best, only a modicum of writing ability -- can get paid to write amazes me. It truly does. And to get paid to write what I wanted is beyond astounding. What other job gives you such freedom? Even when I had a jobs digging postholes for fences not one would have ever paid me to dig holes <EM>anywhere I wanted</EM>.<BR/><BR/>It pains me to see journalists out of work. I understand more and more everyday the fear and anxiety they are feeling. But everyone should recognize that getting paid to write -- whether for a newspaper, for an online magazine, or for a blog -- is more a blessing than a right.Joe Carterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04438102708040286394noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-52124527908561240162009-02-02T16:55:00.000-05:002009-02-02T16:55:00.000-05:00RSM writes: "I cannot help but notice that the fol...RSM writes: "I cannot help but notice that the folks who got played by Culture11 all seem eager to sing the praises of their doomed enterprise and their erstwhile employers, while some of the soon-to-be-former PJM networkers appear on the verge of drowning in the quicksand of bitterness.<BR/><BR/>So, before one of these Young Turks of the intellectual Right again accuses me of being a 'tedious nothing,' let me try to find a conclusion."<BR/><BR/>Your post is riddled with factual inaccuracies. No one on the right has called you a "tedious nothing" -- that was Freddie, a Young Turk of the left, and one who never worked for Culture11.<BR/><BR/>Also, aside from Ericka Anderson in your comments section, no one at Culture11 has weighed in to praise management or to criticize it, so it is obviously inaccurate to say that everyone has done so.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com