Re: Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: "Tim O'Reilly" <tim () oreilly com>
Date: November 24, 2008 9:04:04 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com>
Subject: Re: [IP] Re:    Google Layoffs - 10,000 Workers Affected

I should add that Daya Baran has a checkered history with Google, his  
Web Guild events having been moved off Google's campus after various  
unethical marketing schemes on his part became controversial.  (He was  
putting on conferences named after other people's successful tech  
events, such as Carson Workshops Future of Web Apps and O'Reilly's Web  
2.0 conferences.  Google asked him to rename the events, and he  
refused, at which point they declined to sponsor them in future.)

See the Techcrunch coverage from January:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/webguild-using-questionable-tactics-to-promote-events/

He then proceeded to claim (without any basis) that Google had kicked  
him out based on pressure from me, and went on to cite such  
authoritative sources as Valleywag in attacking my character.

It demonstrates pretty low journalism standards to use him as a source  
for a story about Google layoffs without doing any checking about his  
history with Google.


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