Comments on: The Official TiVo Blog Sucks, They Have No Clue, Don’t Blog If You Are Only Going to Do It Half Ass

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 00:30:13 +0000

–These losers are fucking out of here—
—Just another name to add to the list of names to avoid! —-
Fuck Tivo and fuck their condescending customer support assholes. They think everyone is stupid. I agree, we are stupid to pay fucking Tivo for their primitive crap and ghetto customer service.

By: TiVo on Twitter

TiVo on Twitter — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:29:34 +0000

[...] engagement on a company-focused forum. Yet, TiVo has stumbled in the blogosphere…. from joining the conversation late (and still currently suffering from trust issues) to their own craptastic blog initiative. [...]

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 06:53:00 +0000

It’s been a year, and I happened to stumble across the still fetid TiVo blog.

Stephen–proud of it?

Has anyone ever linked to it?

Does it have more then a few dozen subscribers?

Has anyone ever approached you outside TiVo and said “Hey, I was reading the TiVo blog and ...”?

I’m guessing not.

(Indeed from “TrackBack: 0” below every entry I know nobody cares enough to link back to it. Pretty telling, huh?)

It’s still not a “conversation”, it’s still just regurgitated PR puffery.

Everyone who happens upon it doubtless reads the first few lines, thinks “Gack!–who gives a warm soft one?” and moves on, disappointed to find drivel more appropriate to a MySpace page.

Wow–a company that helped pioneer an entirely new consumer product, whose brand defines it’s category, trying to get it’s message out, and this is the best you folks can do? Your opportunity to engage with customers, to “tell your story”, and it is so wasted?!

Was this your vision? Is this in any way Google-blog-like (your model)?

Own up that the TiVo blog has been a thorough failure, a missed opportunity, a waste of whatever minimal effort has been put into it. Mercifully shut down the embarrassment or actually commit to it in a real way, but don’t leave that horrid wan imitation of a blog putrefying on TiVo.com, it’s just too sad & ugly.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 11:06:00 +0000

Last Anonymous, you say TH has a right to do his blog however he wants, because it's his blog, and then in the same breadth you say TiVo does not in that they need to do some "self-evaluation..." Perhaps TH should do some self-evaluation as well.

It was nice to see TH apologize for his rant, and I will give him credit for that.

There is such a thing as etiquette... if he were talking to someone at a public mall, would shouting and ranting be acceptable there? I think not. That's what they have security for.

What if this didn't work, would he have taken it to the next level and began blowing people up?

The point is, we are a civilized society, and as such, there are expected decorums of behavior.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:08:00 +0000

Honestly, what a bunch of nine year olds. “I’m stupid because your stupid. I know you are but what am I.” Schoolyard BS. Who cares what tone TH uses, it’s his blog and thus has the freedom to post as and what he wishes. He obviously chose this one to get a reaction. Mission accomplished. Similarly TiVo would likely positively spin any post on their blog for their benefit. Regardless of the “tone” TiVo uses I think TH’s point is that TiVo needs to do some self-evaluation to determine just how much they want to be part of the conversation.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:02:00 +0000

Thanks anonymous. I just changed the link. That was the link that was the redirect yesterday from their official blog url. I hadn’t realized it was a redirect when I copied it yesterday.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:11:00 +0000

Hey Hawk- Why don’t you point to the correct URL when you link to the Official TiVo Blog?!?! It is not a typepad link. This is the link:
http://blog.tivo.com

When you blog, it is important to use the right links, guy!

By: Stephen Mack (TiVoOpsMgr)

Stephen Mack (TiVoOpsMgr) — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:50:00 +0000

Thomas, thanks for lighting a fire under our butts. I'm responded to your post here:

http://www.zeigen.com/blog/?p=44

By: Dave Burke

Dave Burke — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 06:14:00 +0000

I’m a bit dazed by all of this nasty criticism of your post, Thomas. But I think when viewed in context it seems to reinforce the fact that customers of TiVo have far more enthusiasm for the product than the company.

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 16:03:00 +0000

"But the blog still sucks and just because you'd rather kill it doesn't mean that it doesn't."

Again, you need to realize that this is just YOUR opinion. Just because you say something is so, doesn't mean it is so; ONLY that this is how you see it.

Anyway, I'm done here; your mind is made up, and you're just going to fight whomever doesn't agree with you.

I got my point across, whether you see it or not. At the very least, you know that we all don't agree with how you see it, nor of your methods.