I am flabbergasted, a little sad, not altogether shocked, and ultimately resigned.

POSTED BY Jennifer Gniadecki on Apr 24 under Blog Yumminess

I am one of the millions of fans of Seth Godin.

His blog is in my reader…well..three of them are…and I lap up the tasty morsels of information and marketing knowledge that he gives out like so much gravy in my kibble.

Yeah, I know, gross analogy…let’s move on.

He had a post the other day I didn’t agree with. It’s not the first time that’s happened, but it’s the first time it happened and I knew *exactly why* it was wrong. I decided to post a comment.

(An hour of trying ot get up the nerve to question the master of new age marketing later)

Huh? What’s that?

YOU CAN’T POST A COMMENT?!

I was fine being a serf tilling the blog-land of the Master of the House. Until he gave me a broken rake, and I realized that was him giving EVERYONE a broken rake and…and…I couldn’t let anyone know.

It’s not like I was going to call him names or say he was wrong, I was going to ask for a little more clarification is all.

Has Mr. Godin become "above it all"?

Not really - there is an "email me" link that I could use, but that’s too one on one for me, I want one degree of separation from knowing that I’m in an email box. But who’s reading that email? What if my question turns out to be stupid…I’ve now wasted someone’s time. What if my question isn’t stupid but an assistant decides it is. Now I’ve wasted MY time.

This whole conundrum would be solved by posting a comment. But I can’t.

So I’ll do the next best thing. I’ll post about it in MY blog.

I’d like to add a small little note here: I do not know if comments are allowed on the other blogs. Go find out! Because even if I had a problem with one post, the hundreds of others I’ve read and learned from more than make up for it. If you don’t know who Seth Godin is, pop into Google and do a search, he’s the MAN when it comes to marketing your busienss. So don’t let my one little issue turn you away from someone that can, with blog posts and books alone, take your business to new heights!

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seth godin May 7, 2007 2:33 pm

sorry to ruin your day.

the very reason I want you to send me an email is so that you will realize that I will in fact read it. In my experience, the quality goes way up, anonymity goes down and my day goes better.

But to each his own. Thanks for reading.
Jennifer Gniadecki May 7, 2007 4:39 pm

Um.

Oh man.

I am so confused right now. I’m alternately shamed and absolutly tickled pink at the fact that Seth Godin posted on my blog.

The point about being anynomous is understood, and I wasn’t trying to be anynomous – but I get a little “star struck” and generally am afraid and nervous about emailing people I think are very busy, very interesting, and very important.

Those are my insecurities, not your problem.

But I like the middle ground of posting comments – which I see you did as opposed to sending an email (slightly ironic, but not in a bad way).

I’m going to go have to think about the whole Seth Godin posted on my blog thing. I think this is how it would feel if I was in high school and Paris Hilton posted on my site.

Bad analogy – did I mention I’m too completely flabbergasted to be smart right now?

Thanks for the response, I understand where you’re coming from.