Startup Chatter by Donna Bogatin

If the City University of New York has a morality clause for its faculty, Jeff Jarvis’ teaching “license” ought to be immediately revoked, given his unseemly public “FU” to the Associated Press he unleashed with venom at his blog because the venerable organization is evaluating a legal strategy designed to protect its copyright interests in an age of unfettered content theft on the Web.

The New York Times’ Saul Hansell underscores Jarvis’ “temper tantrum” in suggesting an inherent hypocrisy of “blogger” Jarvis’ claims to an open Web “conversation, and I second Hansell’s apparent disdain for the“silly” blogosphere which ignorantly delights in self-inflating, pretentious, self-aggrandizing grandstanding, while nevertheless comporting itself as a bullying swarm of self-righteous, exclusionary, blogging thugs.

What Mr. Hansell may not know, though, is that the piggish behavior the Associated Press has been subject to from the supposed blogger leadership–Jeff Jarvis, Michael Arrington–is what any and all content producers fall victim to when they seek to engage in thoughtful, intellectual debate by expressing well-defended positions that may also happen to be deemed “politically incorrect” by the purported blogging elite.

I know, I experienced the spiteful wrath of so-called A-listers this very day, simply because I had the chutzpah to speak truth to blogging, and New York VC power.

My insightful report yesterday cautioning entrepreneurs against taking untruthful VC bloggers at face value and warning readers about agenda-ridden, non-transparent PR puff pieces, was met with vicious personal and gender-based attacks from the (sour) “crème” de la blogosphere:

Robert Scoble; Managing Director, FastCompany.tv
Paul Buchheit; Principal, FriendFeed, ‘ex-Google employee’
Mathew Ingram; Blogger, The Globe and Mail
Charlie O’Donnell; Principal, Path 101, ‘ex-Union Square Ventures employee, Fred Wilson fundee’ 
Adam Lasnik; Search Evangelist, Google
Daniel Ha; Principal, Disqus
Louis Gray; Director, Corporate Marketing, BlueArc Corporation

Once more, for the record: Disqus Revenues? NO COMMENT, Just Like Union Square Ventures 

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