You think this year will be good, and you sell your car to buy more wii? Is anyone buying that? I’m not a games, but i think a Wii does not cost 5.000€.
My guess is that he is running out of money. And that is because of his shady practices and bad tactics, the same tactics that got him and his crew fired from Intact group.
More on the debate debacle. People think i mind that my position as a top blogger is questioned. I do not. It’s natural for every 6 year old to try to outrun his father. So is the blogosphere. What? He is on top? I can take him, easily!
And after years and years, none of them ever get to the point of even showing in my rear-view mirror. And then the real attack begins. His ideas and blog posts are stupid because…he is a Capricorn. This is considered an argument nowadays by people who want to be on top. Logic or something that resembles judgement is not to be considered.
Bogdan Gavrila, well known stain on Romanian internet, had a problem a few months ago. While he was the dark force behind the World Blogging Forum, none of the respected bloggers from his native country gave him and WBF any love. Some of them questioned the line up, which was inexistent at the time of the announcement, other asked why the Liberal Party gave the money and to whom, others alerted the authorities for misuse of the official Communication Ministry logo on the site, as such permission was not given (he promptly remove the logo and now denies ever using it).
All water under the bridge. After the WBF ended, Bogdan Gavrila went on the attack. On everyone. As a part of his attack was the assumption that the bloggers that were present (from Romania, as observers, as Romania did not have a representative at WBF, because, again, every respected one refused to participate) were young lions, already hitting hard the old and established bloggers (the ones that turned him down), who were just about to go down.
I had a tear in my eye. Honest. A few days later after his high hopes declaration of war, one of the young bloggers was caught posting on his blog translated news from American sites.
The whole story is here, in Romanian.
Failed again, Mr. Gavrila. I know this will not slow you down, because a person who already lost everything (money, reputation, business, friends and credibility) has no choice but to fight his dirty fight, along his ashamed crew.
If LeWeb was sponsored by the French Parliament, organised by a student groupt nobody ever heard of and announced five weeks before it happened would any respectable French blogger attend?
What if, 2 weeks before the presidential elections, Mr. Sarkozy would give a political speech? Would they come?
What if behind the event was a blogger nobody likes, because he is a real sleaze and untrusted person? What if you would try to fight a spam site and he would call you a member of the Securitate, would you attend? What if you found out that he stole the content of one of your sites and when to mention the source, he would play it dumb, would you come?
Would any of your American friends come? (i guess we found the answer to that one when the only important person on that list was you)
So, please, don’t judge.
That’s some of the reasons not one respectable Romanian professional blogger attended the event.
We really need debates in Romanian schools. We need to teach ourselves the art of argumentation. What can be said and what cannot be said. Acceptable arguments and arguments that make us look dumb.
No, i am not talking about the retard that understood from this post that my only life purpose is to buy a car. I am talking about entering the battle of the minds with arguments like “his eyes are weird” (that is true, from my accident the eyes are a little pushed back) and “he is so thin” (always been like that) in order to prove is superior thinking.
I would like some fact-based arguments when we are fighting. Or at least a quiet surrender.