Unboomed or Overboomed?
Buisiness is booming for Amanda Condon, the overnight internet sweetheart-turned-vixen of Rocketboom fame (we're playing with a new "voice" — do you like?).
The offer on the communal table is pretty sweet, all the cash she needs plus the rights to the finished products. If only the record companies would realize that wisdom and pursue a similar avenue with new bands instead of screwing them for everything they can get, I may be little more inclined to buy their CDs and little more simpathetic to their piracy plights.
I believe there's just a little unwritten caveat to such offers; Amanda, it may be time to play nice and sound a little less victimized on your blog. If you sling mud too long you're likely to lose friends and new ones will stay away for fear of getting dirty. You might be wise to just make the departure clean.
The way I see it, this whole thing is playing out like a bad break-up. It makes all the friends a little unneasy and yet fulfills some primal urge to see blood. But in the end this kind of feud either splits friend groups into his and her camps, or one or even both parties of the break-up are ostracized by friends tired of bickering and they are each forced to find new playmates.
For the moment Andrew seems to be taking the high road, not feeling compelled to rebutt Amanda openly. Of course the drama wouldn't be nearly so if Amanda followed suite, but would that be best for everyone in the end?
The offer on the communal table is pretty sweet, all the cash she needs plus the rights to the finished products. If only the record companies would realize that wisdom and pursue a similar avenue with new bands instead of screwing them for everything they can get, I may be little more inclined to buy their CDs and little more simpathetic to their piracy plights.
I believe there's just a little unwritten caveat to such offers; Amanda, it may be time to play nice and sound a little less victimized on your blog. If you sling mud too long you're likely to lose friends and new ones will stay away for fear of getting dirty. You might be wise to just make the departure clean.
The way I see it, this whole thing is playing out like a bad break-up. It makes all the friends a little unneasy and yet fulfills some primal urge to see blood. But in the end this kind of feud either splits friend groups into his and her camps, or one or even both parties of the break-up are ostracized by friends tired of bickering and they are each forced to find new playmates.
For the moment Andrew seems to be taking the high road, not feeling compelled to rebutt Amanda openly. Of course the drama wouldn't be nearly so if Amanda followed suite, but would that be best for everyone in the end?
posted by Tim M at 1:53 PM
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