Comments on: Why TheNextWeb.org matters…

By: I Hate To See You Go, But I Love To Watch You Leave - The Next Web

I Hate To See You Go, But I Love To Watch You Leave - The Next Web — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:42:35 +0000

[...] but also very proud and thankful because Ernst-Jan isn’t leaving us to join another blog or something mundane like that. No, HE is going to be joining a bunch of REAL journalists (Andrew Keen would be proud) at the [...]

By: Tinus

Tinus — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:37:30 +0000

I know I am interested in the rest of the world. Half my annual income is coming from across the border.

By: European

European — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:37:34 +0000

I agree completely, although I’m not sure I would classify MySpace as “cool stuff” ;)

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:41:03 +0000

I agree with your point just not with your way of getting there. Saying that nothing we do matters won’t get us anywhere. Acknowledging that we are actually doing cool stuff too is a good start…

By: European

European — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:35:00 +0000

That doesn’t even mean anything.. My point is we’re just not very important, and that’s OUR failure, not “their” ignorance. We’re not good enough at this game to be important, and that has to change. This blog, although a bit amateurish, is part of a drive for that change, and I applaud that, but it’s far from enough. It’s very much a problem of attitude and culture, which is really hard to change.

We should stop whining and start doing things that matter and get noticed. Those ignorant Americans are much, much better at this than us.

(Oh, and MySpace NL.. Seriously, who cares?)

By: Wold

Wold — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:56:25 +0000

As an American living in Amsterdam, my apologies. Americans can sometimes have a narrow view and speak without thinking. Doesn’t speak for all of us however.

By: dolce

dolce — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:29:03 +0000

as I read thenexweb the first time I wondered why this blog is so freshening. some days later I recognized that the authors are “Muschelschubser” (I try to translate: shell nudger) ;-) That’s why! theNExtWeb rocks! greetz from munich

By: Mircea

Mircea — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:34:05 +0000

Last week, if I remember well, it was a discussion on Techcrunch about an israeli statup which dealt with soccer http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/10/22/imscouting-pulls-off-ambitious-soccer-data-play/

Some of the readers there also didn’t give a damn about soccer because wasn’t american (although it’s the most popular sport in the rest of the world).

There was some flames in those discussions regarding this…

Yes, TheNextWeb matters!

By: Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten

Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:06:03 +0000

That comment only shows how little you know about the rest of the world.

By: drivingsouth

drivingsouth — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 13:03:24 +0000

yep