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I listen to Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood on the Stack Overflow Podcast and yell at the radio.
By RickMeasham | September 19, 2009
From comments they’ve made, I’m sure I’m not the only one. Here’s an open letter to them:
Dear Joel and Jeff,
You lauched Server Fault for SysAdmins, but you admit to not knowing that crowd as well as you know the programming crowd. That’s fine. But you need to find someone who does understand that crowd — and preferably already has the credibility you two have with programmers. Then you need to get him (or her) to co-host the podcast.
At the moment, your podcast does you no favours in promoting Server Fault: You constantly show little understanding of such things. The entire argument on hosting your own DNS on the most recent podcast is a perfect example.
I’m sure nobody minds if you don’t know everything, but to gain credibility for Server Fault, it needs a ’sponsor’ that can join your team — at least on the podcast.
Cheers!
Rick Measham
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