I thought the same, but just 10 minutes searching around the sys-con sites I found plenty of evidence that Sys Con Founder Fuat Kircaali has a pretty intense temper and uses his entire company to channel it.
He would make a pretty hilarious sitcom character. It's pretty entertaining until you realize it's real and like Aral you're the victim of his wrath.
Google him and go to his own sys-con page (I won't link straight to it to avoid paying them google juice) and see his article on "Social Media Terrorists" for a classic result of what happens when a powerful man has too much of a temper. I took a screenshot incase they pull it down:
I would be embarrassed to have anything to do with that company. And yes the advertisers (like Sun, IBM etc really should not encourage that sort of behavior. Luckily Sys-Con is such a web 1.0 like company and I had happily forgotten all about them until I saw this article.
He would make a pretty hilarious sitcom character. It's pretty entertaining until you realize it's real and like Aral you're the victim of his wrath.
Google him and go to his own sys-con page (I won't link straight to it to avoid paying them google juice) and see his article on "Social Media Terrorists" for a classic result of what happens when a powerful man has too much of a temper. I took a screenshot incase they pull it down:
http://skitch.com/pelle/b3fam/social-media-terrorists-coldfu...
I would be embarrassed to have anything to do with that company. And yes the advertisers (like Sun, IBM etc really should not encourage that sort of behavior. Luckily Sys-Con is such a web 1.0 like company and I had happily forgotten all about them until I saw this article.