A week after her blogosphere-bombshell “Shitcanned” post where TroutGirl (aka Joyce Park) wrote of getting fired from Friendster for blogging, she tells her side of the story to Red Herring. I still haven’t heard Friendster’s side of the story. Have they told it somewhere that I’ve overlooked?
Thanks to Olivier for the link.
Red Herring: No Friendster of Mine
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Former Friendster engineer Joyce Park has told the story of her sacking to technology title Red Herring. Rick Bruner asks: I still haven’t heard Friendster’s side of the story. Have they told it somewhere that I’ve overlooked? Friendster reminds me…
Trackback by Big Blog Company — September 14, 2004 @ 6:29 pm
We can assume they screwed up or atleast the firing wasn’t tactile.
Comment by Jeff — September 14, 2004 @ 10:31 pm
I emailed Friendster asking if they had published a press release on the issue. Of course, I didn’t hear back from them.
Nowhere have I seen anything resembling a response from them. Which, imo, is stupid. Do they think by sticking their head in the sand they can just hope this blows over? Haven’t they lost 100’s of subscribers already?
Heck, who knows, maybe, like Hurricane Ivan, now that the story is “old news” it will blow over. Still, I’d like to hear their side.
Comment by Paul Chaney — September 16, 2004 @ 10:57 am
My understanding is that usually companies don’t or can’t comment on the background behind a firing…which is unfortunate in this case, but understandable.
Comment by Elaine — September 17, 2004 @ 12:57 pm
Shitcanned with a positive outcome you could say:
Joyce Park, blogger ID Troutgirl, with a huge following, was shitcanned by Friendster, a blogging company, for…..blogging.
Duh, %&? you might be tempted to say. Not so fast. Now and then, the interactive media gets reverse-engineered in the worst sense of the word, by big, huge succesful TV execs who Bring Their Business Expertise to the Interactive Field. By sharks, whose world is one of one-way broadcasting, where dumb consumers can’t talk back and employees, *if they’re smart*, will say what they’re told. Two-way conversations in any way are an anathema to the foxy toxidity of general non-ecletic dishing out of news speak mentality.
Joyce Park is currently getting deluded with job offers. Interactive is cool, sharky.
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Comment by Gisela Strauss — September 20, 2004 @ 11:48 am