Hello there… I’m the mysterious 6th babeler. Mr. Movie Whore this one is for you…
This blog started as a brain “child” of Mr. Rineberg. Once titled under a different name… But due to differences and personal matters the 6 of us left the original site and brain stormed this illegitimate “child”. We covered our assets and padded our rooms in preparation for world wide web conquest… How we met…. Now that’s a whole ‘nother story all together…
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Jeff, your super power suggests you are invisible. Has your cloaking device malfunctioned?
A story that could only be best told by the narrator from the Conan movies.
Jeff, I am going to have to challenge the accuracy of this post. Mr. Rineberg’s original “brain child” was not a WordPress blog. I even remember Mr. Rineberg expressing how he didn’t want a blog site. What he wanted was an informational newspaper website which delivered streams of information based on organic search. I know this because I built a prototype tabulated design of what he wanted based on a piece of paper he showed me. After hours of brainstorming, Mr. Rineberg, Mr. Molyneux and I took it a step further to something known as the TimeLine. Understanding that the requirements for such a project were too large, we simply decided to transfer what we were already doing in MySpace blogs (good times, University of Columbia, getting Jeff to watch Braveheart, UDD, etc) to our own WordPress blog at our own URL. Mr. Molyneux and myself hosted and configured a blog called “Atlas Editorials” on an October weekend and our blog-ring was transferred from MySpace to Atlas. The three of us (Greg, Greg, and me) split the hosting fees by three. Now I will give credit where credit is due. The name “Atlas Editorials” was indeed Mr. Rineberg’s.
So what happened? There were rocky times during the first few months of Atlas (Oct 07 – Jan 08). At one point, it was decided that no one was allowed to submit their posts to social bookmarking/networking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg, and Reddit. This rubbed me the wrong way and caused tension, but it was later ruled that submission was ok. I had decided to become a silent one-third owner of the blog, which meant I surrendered my authority but still retained ownership. Then there was an incident involving a drawing tablet which was the first ringing of the division bell. Someone that I used to see almost every night (watching Yankee games, or just whatever) stopped coming over after this happened. I could feel inside something was wrong and it would only get worse. I then went to Florida for Xmas vacation and came back engaged. This was when the human-output really hit the fan. As one-third owner of the blog, I felt very left out as two meetings happened without me. Even though I had surrendered my authority in decision making, I would have liked to have been a part of the meeting. When I expressed my concern about this as one-third owner to a partner, I was told that I gave up ownership when I gave up my decision-making authority.
I most certainly over-reacted to the situation because my own company was half nested in Atlas Editorials. It was a portfolio example and the Google AdSense revenue was linked to my company’s bank account. The blog was created as the official blog of my company. All this made me act legally and write a nasty legal letter in attempt to secure my company’s interest in Atlas.
Well, the letter did its job in protecting Atlas, but it was at the cost of loosing some of my closest friends. Jake, Oren, Andrew, and Jayson…no offense but I have never been close to you. I always respected you and thought you guys were neat, but what really hurt was Jack, both Gregs, and Jeff. While I couldn’t understand how all of you supported Mr. Rineberg’s decision to tell me that I no longer had ownership, it became clear that the legal action had upset you much more than what Mr. Rineberg had done. Since Mr. Molynuex confirmed by email on the day after the letter was presented, that I did not surrender any ownership, I realize that I should have taken this subject to the dashboard wiki. To all of you, I apologize for this, as I have thought everyday about it since it has happened. Every time I text one of you now or you stop by for a visit, I am reminded of what my actions have brought upon me as the situation becomes awkwardly civil and not what it once was.
So you all decided to leave Atlas (can’t blame you) and take your words with you. You created a new blog called Babeled. It is a shift in blogging that began in MySpace migrated to Atlas and has become Babeled.
I read babeled everyday and I must say, it feels great to participate via comments. I don’t ever wish to be able to post with you like before because I have my own blog for that. I simply wish to attempt to restore and repair the friendships which have unraveled as a result of my actions.
As an extension of my hand in attempt to shake yours in the blogosphere, I will be adding a link to Babeled on the blogroll of Atlas Editorials.
Sorry to drop this huge dramatic comment in your post Jeff, I just felt I needed to tell the story from my eyes for the purpose of closure. If any of what I said is inaccurate, please let me know.
Jon, as somebody who doesn’t know you well and can therefor be somewhat objective about the essay you just wrote in comment #3, all I can ask is, “How could you have possibly thought this was a good idea?”
The big problem with what you wrote is that 90% of it is unnecessary…
Unnecessary primarily because its proper place of expression is in the privacy of a physical room that has four walls, a floor, and a ceiling…not on a public forum where you can drag the rest of the internet into your inability to communicate like a rational human being.
Andrew don’t hold back tell us how you really feel.
Jon that would have been better as your post on how this all began.
Jeff we want the the other story of how this motley crew of know it alls met.
Hahaha, Jim I love how you’ve turned into the puppet master.
Jim, some of us actually met in CCD class LOL.
I stir it up wherever I go. One of my many talents.
Besides this is quite entertaining.