I’ve been avoiding writing about the challenges that PulverMedia currently faces. I’m not sure that anything I could do or say, except to extend my support to all those involved, would really make a difference. On Friday, friend, fellow-blogger and definitely-a-nice-guy Luca lets it rip. Right before it became public, Marc Robins reported it, and I growled at him because I didn’t think he was being supportive. Supportive or not, apparently, he was right. Since then, we’ve seen goodbye messages from Carl Ford, dis-avowals from Jeff Pulver, and stories from Andy Abramson and Om Malik. Shoot, I even called an end to the show a year ago, but I came back because of love.

I think most of us are shocked at the loss of our girlfiend VON. We loved her, and even when she did stupid things, we valued our relationship and were willing to do what it took to remain with her. As it turns out, she had different needs than we did, and the relationship is at a turning point yet again. Nobody knows if she’s coming back, or when, or what she’ll look like when and if she does. As for me, I’m enjoying my new relationship with EComm, and had a great date with Telco 2.0 last month. New horizons always.

As Lee Dryburgh so exactly put it when O’Reilly canceled the emerging telephony show, you can’t cancel a community. The VON community isn’t to be cancelled either. I’m not so sure if we stay together on Facebook, or we end up being EComm buddies or what, but the community isn’t being cancelled. It’s just changing. As for Jeff and Carl, and everyone else who spends their lives with these “telephone geeks”, the VON community not only supports you, but we thank you for how you’ve supported us. If the investors who own the rights to the VON show currently have different needs than we do, that’s their prerogative - we need to acknowledge that. Unfortunately, it’s becoming crystal clear that one of their needs isn’t to ingratiate themselves to our community, and our community members like Luca are suffering because of it.

Posted by Thomas Howe @ 9:25 am | Filed Under Lead Stories |

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