Jaffe & Curry story closed

Both Joseph Jaffe and Adam Curry have closed the discussion on the hostage taking of Adam's interview. Part two of the interview (very interresting) is out on Across The Sound now. In the end I'm most impressed by how a few simple words on a podcast (one word if you ask me: "hostage") can start an online wildfire that grabs the attention of so many people.

Joseph (yes, the man himself) reacted on my post with some more interresting thoughts.

As he's in Belgium next week, speaking on a conference, and I'm still contemplating (or gathering the courage) whether I'm gonna yell "Bend over, bitch" when het gets on the podium. :-)

Joseph Jaffe discovers how difficult marketing through social networks can be ...

This is an interresting one. Joseph Jaffe -new marketing guru- has run into trouble with Adam Curry. He did an interview with Adam and Ron Bloom (they're the guys behind Podshow.com). He ran the first half of the interview in his podcast Across The Sound and then (quote) "held the second part hostage" untill Adam Curry would "give him some love" (read: "promote Jaffe's show") on the "Daily Source Code" (a much listened to podcast by Curry).

Adam responded in his typical way (half fun, half serious) and claimed back the right to use the second part of the interview untill (go listen to the podcast). I agree with Curry, Joseph's idea about keeping the interview hostage is fucking lame. But the story gets even better. Apparently Joseph sent Adam an apology of some kind, but Adam won't play it "for Joseph's own protection". A lot of negative reactions also towards Jaffe.

Looks like Joseph is running into a similar problem as Agency.com when they launched their failed atempt to leverage viral marketing in a pitch for Subway.

New marketing and social media, it's not all that easy. But if you ask me, it all comes down to common sense, being transparent and honest, and a minimum of emotional intelligence.