Comments on: Sys-Con goes from bad to worse, launches Ulitzer, attacks community and content creators

By: Kate Lee

Kate Lee — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:00:38 +0000

What a facinating blog. I’ve bookmarked it and added your feed to my RSS Reader

By: We’re whoring, drinking, and shooting the pope! | linkfeedr

We’re whoring, drinking, and shooting the pope! | linkfeedr — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:13:11 +0000

[...] We’re whoring, drinking, and shooting the pope! This article was found on Joe Rinehart on ColdFusion, Flex, and Java. Click here to visit the full article on the original website.Sys-con’s at it again. Here’s the short version: Sys-con reprints Aral Balkan’s content online. Aral Tweets a WTF. Ted Patrick replies with a “this company needs to die.” Sys-Con states that Aral’s whoring, Ted’s drinking, and a Turkish heritage implies that you’re a Papal assassin. This morning, they approved for publication a quick article I wrote describing the affair. It’s at least nice to see that they’ll let us use their own platform to disagree with them. My article’s had a few bits edited, so I can’t guarantee it’s going to be 100% what I said. While the article has been published, Ulitzer / Sys-Con has pulled my author page and removed other articles I’ve written. I’m not making any of this up: Aral documents it quite well. [...]

By: Dev by MX» sys-con craziness

Dev by MX» sys-con craziness — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:19:10 +0000

[...] started here: http://www.darrelplant.com/blog_item.php?ItemRef=1263 And continue on Aral website http://aralbalkan.com/2022 http://aralbalkan.com/2056 [...]

By: Jame

Jame — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 21:27:49 +0000

Ridiculous. Pathetic insults, stealing content, and using random photos? If this is what “the most powerful media company” in the world does, how do the other companies have a chance? Thanks for sharing your story Aral!

By: James

James — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 00:19:19 +0000

Yeah I went to the Sys-Con Cloud Computing and Virtualization Conference in NYC over the last week. While it was mostly worthwhile, it was too pricey compared to other technical conferences. They want you to buy a gold pass of $1500 (or $1995 at the door) to be a delegate. Definetly too expensive for most people. Even if you pay $100 for the lower Expo Plus level, you don’t get a lot of the gold pass perks like lunch, additional technical sessions, etc… The whole gold pass system makes the events inaccessible for those not sponsored by a large company. It gives the event this sense of elitism which is really not what IT is about given the spirit of enterpreneuralism that exists in making new technologies. I can think of many other ways for a company to spend that kind of money especially in this economy.

By: Aral

Aral — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:13:44 +0000

Hi Carlos,

I’m just getting a simple 404 page. Which browser/OS is it crashing on?

By: Carlos Pinho

Carlos Pinho — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:22:29 +0000

Aral,

Take out the Ted’s link on Syscon site. It’s crashing the browser all the time.

By: William Vambenepe’s blog » Blog Archive » Open Cloud Manifesto, circa 2004

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 08:06:11 +0000

[...] of last week was the manifesto-gate. The mini-scandal of this week is shaping out to be the Ulitzer-gate (if you want to make sure not to miss next week’s IT scandal, subscribe to the Register feed, [...]

By: Aral Balkan - More lies: Sys-Con editor is really actress from LA, Sys-Con writer is British male supermodel

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:18:41 +0000

[...] few people have been wondering whether Sys-Con’s behavior recently with regard to Ulitzer (see Sys-Con goes from bad to worse, launches Ulitzer, attacks community and content creators, And Sys-Con defames me & And Sys-Con libels me *again*) constitutes a lapse in judgement or [...]

By: Darth Guybrush

Darth Guybrush — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:15:47 +0000

Man, this just keeps getting better and better!