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To: gdichaz who wrote (1371)	1/18/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: tero kuittinen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 34857

Drop the quotation marks, buddy. If I'm writing to thestreet.com and getting paid for it I bloody well am a columnist. I may be booted out next month, but at least I made it there. And I did it without connections or the right nationality. If many American "columnists" have been totally wrong in their predictions about the stock performance of major telecom companies, how come nobody starts using quotation marks in describing them? I was closer to the mark about Motorola's earnings than most US investment banks and I intend to be closer to the mark when it comes to Nokia's and Ericsson's earnings. I'll be damned if that doesn't mean I'm earning my pay better than some web pundits I could mention. Where's the balanced commentary on mobile telecom issues in US media? Would you characterize the recent travesty published in WSJ as having balance and perspective? I'm a Finn - so sue me. I think there's some bias in every commentator. But if you are American nobody questions your motives in recommending Motorola, even if you are proven to be dead wrong. Tell me if I'm soft on Ericsson after you've actually read my piece on them. And let's talk about bias after I start performing worse than Merrill Lynch. Cheers, Tero

To: gdichaz who wrote (1371)	1/18/1999 2:07:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 34857

*OT* Chaz, I have to agree with Tero on this. He ISN'T a columnist in the USA any more than he's a columnist anywhere else. Neither do I believe balance and perspective should be anything other than what Tero believes it should be. I'm amused that I find Tero and I actually agree on something. Anyway, I think we need a new word instead of "columnist". 5th column is appropriate, fourth estate is no longer right because the Web doesn't really have columns and there is no longer any need to pretend balance and perspective in the Web because unlike the newspapers, there is no need to try to keep a wide range of readers attached. One can appeal to a narrow spectrum of readers. Tero is in the hagfish tank, oozing GSM charm. I'm not bad at charming snakes [cobras a specialty], but I'm still learning with hagfish. Something related to the number of 'clicks' one gets is probably the way to rate 'columnists' in the Web World. I suppose a 1 clicker would be 1000 readers, a 10 clicker 10,000, a 100 clicker 100,000, a 1000 clicker 1,000,000. They could perhaps be a "1K". At 10K one would be in the international eye [or listed with the SEC]. Being 100K would rate one in the zippergate range. To make it to 1000K, or "1B" for billion one would need to be Diana caught in the act in the garden by some elf with a WebCam. It would be fun to know how many "clicks" one is. Maurice