DISQUS

Mona N. · 1 year ago

Two Words. Lesbian Cat.
...ok, maybe more. Duncan, you are amazing. I admire your honesty and the ability to always keep it real. You're a phenomenal leader and I'm sure I am not the only one who appreciates your involvement with us 'nobodies' in the FF community. Thank you, for being you.

See you in FF land,
Mona

Duncan Riley · 1 year ago

Mona, first you're not a nobody, you're a FF star who is massively popular in ways I can only dream of.
Second: I love the community at FF, real people, diverse range (not just tech), I can see myself growing old and participating. I don't care what people say about Twitter (and it can rock), but FF is the best

Mona N. · 1 year ago

Duncan - In no ways am I a 'star' or 'popular'. I'm all about actually 'socializing' in Social Media. I love diverse conversations with digressive tendencies and gathering / gaining knowledge from people world wide. And FF is the one place with an established community on the Internet, where who you are, who you know, where you're from makes no difference. Like you, I think FF IS the best. :)

Kevin Bondelli · 1 year ago

I don't have anything to say as poignant as Mona's Lesbian Cat, but I do have to say that it is great to see a post like this. Too often we fall into the trap of either participating in sycophancy or ego complexes.

jyesmith · 1 year ago

Some great points. Whether or not the false idolatry will start to ease off a bit - and people, especially in digital media, will stop being famous for being famous, I think it's important that these folk use their position to actually do something meaningful.

gregorylent · 1 year ago

anybody can use any position to do something meaningful ... no need to wait for others.

gregorylent · 1 year ago

nice writing, thanks for this.

about people we know as famous, to whatever degree, it is great when we realize that they are normal and just like us .... except for something indefinable, whether we call it luck or karma, or working a little harder, or a better talk/do ratio.

good luck. keep writing. go deep.

gregory lent

CyndyA · 1 year ago

Oh good. I feel better then. I had proposed what I thought was an awesome session for Blog World and got turned down and have been feeling downright pissy about it. I forgot it was all about who you know and not what you know or what you are interested in. Thanks for the reminder. I should quit submitting ideas to these things. No one gives a rat's ass about anything but who you are, and I'm with you in not caring, only with even less tact.

Jeremy Wright · 1 year ago

Great post Duncan, but it begs the question: who do you see as your heroes, or the folk you genuinely look up to in the industry (note I didn't say "web 2.0", heh)?

ncaitan · 1 year ago

Great post!!! This is the best post I have ever read since I started reading Tech and others blogs. You seem to be the only blogger capable to post about the latest advancements in tech, the latest gossip news, and still have the critical realism to grasp that there is a world outside the blogosphere and the internet. You surprised me when you post about "furious" rail commuters in Argentina, you surprised me even more when you decided not to install google's chrome, reminding us that we still have the right to choose, and that I don't have to go after the latest tech- toy only because it is google-related and the entire blogosphere is writing about that. As you said in your post you don't like the ideals of celebrity, but let me tell you, in south America, without a laptop, without IPhone, without broadband access; only with a desktop PC, using my job Internet connection, working hours and resources ( and still being productive… J), you have a fan. Thanks for all the posts Ducan, The Inquisitr rules!!!

Chris Pirillo · 1 year ago

Kinda not sure what to say, other than I thought my site was going to be under the "camera whore" link. I mean that in a non-narcissistic way. I'm supremely pissed off that it wasn't, but... eh, you can make it up to me the next time we meet. By then, I'll be namedropping with the best of 'em! Oh, did you see my tweet about who I had lunch with the other day? It was amazing, and you weren't there.

You're in this for the right reasons, and for that reason... you'll continue to succeed. You may live down under, but you're on top in my book. Not that I would know if you happen to be someone who likes it on... nevermind. I'm outta here. Gotta find a place with more ego.

DUI Lawyers Online · 1 year ago

whether they take it onboard is another thing. I’ve done a dozen speaking gigs or more in the last 2 years, where I’ve tried to share the gift of social media to others, and afterwards people have come up and said that hearing me speak has inspired them to try. That’s the good side of attention.

Famous People · 10 months ago

interesting perspective

scott_goldblatt · 1 year ago

Duncan, good stuff. The question really remains as to what a celebrity is? To many people, celebrity means different things. The fact of the matter is that you are only a celebrity to me if you are down to earth and can take the time to acknowledge my existence. If not, what good are you to me and your many other "fans."

Jeremy does ask a great question... who are your heroes?