Feb
17
DIY Media – Error Correction
I (Alex) wrote a blog post titled "Brian Drain for Austin" yesterday. The gist was that companies were leaving Austin and relocating to other cities. I started thinking about this last year when Ben Brown decided to move his Web 2.0 startup to San Francisco (acquired by C|Net).
I had read an article in the Dallas Business Journal that General Bandwidth was moving their offices from Austin to Dallas. I weaved that into my larger idea and blogged about it. This morning I got a call from General Bandwidth and they asked me to change my blog post. They wanted to make it clear to their employees that they were not moving all operations to Dallas, just the HQ. Evidently their Austin employees were getting concerned after reading my blog post. I didn’t know that anyone even read my blog…
At the end of the day I think this is a good example of how easily it is to get the story partially wrong, but how easy it is for companies to get DIY media guys like me to fix it. He called at 10:25AM and by 10:28 the post had been update/corrected. How long will it take him to get the Dallas Business Journal to clarify their piece? (their piece is actually very clear, but it is so long I suspect that most people get the same impression I got)
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