Thanks again for your willingness to discuss.

Thanks again for your willingness to discuss.

The question is one of professional ethics.

The link doesn’t see to be working quite right, but I assume you’re trying to help me understand the issue is about flickr and censorship. Perhaps to you it is. But to me, it’s a discussion about the appropriate, ethical, moral, and all around worthwhile behavior of a businessman and CEO.

I’ll ask a couple of very basic questions to help me clarify my point, as well as better understand your position:

1. Do you believe that you give up anything as flickr community member by agreeing to head Zooomr, a flickr competitor?

2a. Do you believe your behavior in public has affect on your own business?

2b. Do you believe your recent drunk posts were helpful to the Zooomr business?

3. Do you believe that your participation in flickr, both in photo posting and forum posting with links and discussion that points to Zooomr drives traffic to your own business’ site?

3b. If yes to 3., is that then a marketing strategy?

4. Would you feel comfortable with the CEO of Facebook blogging and creating a MySpace profile that pointed out, often and regularly, the problems with MySpace, regardless of his affiliation notification?

5. Do you feel that identifying yourself as the CEO of Zooomr is a “get out of jail free” card that allows you to say anything you want about Flickr without fear of repercussions from the blogosphere?

(More characters now to answer all this)

I’ll just point you to this comment I recently left on my blog instead. I wouldn’t expect you to understand because you haven’t been part of the Flickr Community in the same way that I have. I do appreciate your criticism and feedback though.

http://thomashawk.com/2007/06/update-on-censorship-problem-on-flickr.html#1211174743702474165

The question is one of professional ethics.

The link doesn’t see to be working quite right, but I assume you’re trying to help me understand the issue is about flickr and censorship. Perhaps to you it is. But to me, it’s a discussion about the appropriate, ethical, moral, and all around worthwhile behavior of a businessman and CEO.

I’ll ask a couple of very basic questions to help me clarify my point, as well as better understand your position:

1. Do you believe that you give up anything as flickr community member by agreeing to head Zooomr, a flickr competitor?

2a. Do you believe your behavior in public has affect on your own business?

2b. Do you believe your recent drunk posts were helpful to the Zooomr business?

3. Do you believe that your participation in flickr, both in photo posting and forum posting with links and discussion that points to Zooomr drives traffic to your own business’ site?

3b. If yes to 3., is that then a marketing strategy?

4. Would you feel comfortable with the CEO of Facebook blogging and creating a MySpace profile that pointed out, often and regularly, the problems with MySpace, regardless of his affiliation notification?

5. Do you feel that identifying yourself as the CEO of Zooomr is a “get out of jail free” card that allows you to say anything you want about Flickr without fear of repercussions from the blogosphere?

(More characters now to answer all this)

I’ll just point you to this comment I recently left on my blog instead. I wouldn’t expect you to understand because you haven’t been part of the Flickr Community in the same way that I have. I do appreciate your criticism and feedback though.

http://thomashawk.com/2007/06/update-on-censorship-problem-on-flickr.html#1211174743702474165