Jeff Jarvis doesn't like our metblogs project, and was particularly harsh on the New York one. Although he also didn't bother to do any homework and made the incorrect assumption that the Jason doing them is Calacanis not DeFillippo (I got away scott free), and kind of implies that the writers don't know how to write blogs, even though most of them have their own blogs - so that kind of puts the review in perspective.

I'm kinda bummed because I respect Jeff and he's been so positive on other local projects I was hoping he'd reallly like this, but I guess you can't please everyone all the time. It's also disappointing that someone with so many eyes on him would make such a blatently false statement as if it's fact - No where on the sites does it say Weblogs Inc, or Jason Calacanis, but all over it they say Bode Media, and the FAQ says that's me and Jason DeFillippo. What's worse is how many people will read Jeff's post, not read the comments, and then walk away with that false info thinking it's the truth.

For what it's worth, this is a brand new project - it took a month or so for us to get into our groove on blogging.la and for only being live a day I think the other cities are off to a great start. I think we found some very interesting people who have a cool, new perspective on things and I can't wait to see what they are going to do with the sites.

UPDATE: this was just pointed out to me. Maybe Jeff has other reasons for trashing our project?

UPDATE 2: Fortunately other people are actually getting it.

"Way to go guys! This is the way to do "local". I'm really looking forward to seeing how these stack up against blogging.la and evolve in their own directions. Its also a great way to get new bloggers involved in a very grassroots way. Like opening a window on a nice spring day, this is definitely going to bring some fresh air into the echo chamber."- Random Bytes

UPDATE 3: Jeff updated his post to correct the errors but then spent several paragraphs seemingly trying to justify it. I'm all for discussion and even for constructive criticism, but he's still hasn't actually posted a *link* to the sites he's dissing, even though he was happy to quote their text.