Actually, we didn't know were selling text ads to people selling page rank back in 2005... just like Tim O'Rielly didn't. We both turned those ads off when we found out.

so, we actually did the RIGHT THING and you're still trying to paint me as some evil spammer.

to this day Joystiq, Hackaday, Engadget, TechCrunch50, This Week in Tech, This Week in Startups, Open Angel Forum, Blippy, Gowalla, GDGT and dozens of other brands/projects I've been involved with/invested in are doing great work.

You're making me into this black hat who is trying to cheat... it's not how I operate. I true to make and support great products and improve them consistently.

A lot of folks I know like the brands I'm involved with and I'm very proud of those brands.

Have I made mistakes over the last 15 years of building brands? of course... but i'm always honest and engage folks who point them out. in fact, i thank them.... like i've done here.

your attacking me for what you think are my weakest points just gets my team focused on fixing them--and for that I thank you!

Honestly, thank you! if there are things we can do better we want to do them. We're in it for the long-haul. We want to make a great brand and we don't want to do it by cutting corners.

I know you were hurt when I said "seo is bullshit" a million years ago, but back then that is what i thought. I didn't know anything about SEO back then and I really don't know much about it now. i was wrong when i said it was bullshit and I have said that it was an off the cuff, uninformed statement many times.

what is it going to take to make you happy?