Andy Beal's 'Two Assignment for You'

Andy Beal, "President & CEO of Fortune Interactive," has an assignment of us in a post at WebProNews.com headlined "Scoble And Israel Not Impressing Amazon." The assignment:

1. Read Shel Israel's recap of his and Robert Scoble's presention about blogging to Amazon.com.

2. Now read Robert Scoble's intepretation of the same presentation.

Done that? They both paint (in my opinion) the picture that Amazon simply doesn't get blogging.

Beal said, "Shel's comments sum it up,..."We got a great many questions challenging any contention that Amazon would benefit from blogging in any way"

"Ok, now read Werner Vogels', CTO for Amazon.com, version of events."

Vogels' long post over at All Things Distributed is headlined "Naked Answers." It's a play on the title of Scoble and Israel's book Naked Conversations, which can be purchased at Amazon. I say let the conversation continue on this subject. Scoble's readers definitely are engaged.

Israel also has interesting comments from readers. Vogels has a list of "links to weblogs that reference Naked Answers."

This is one of the reasons I love blogging. CEOs, CTOs, authors and average citizens can engage in conversations from any place in the world about issues, technology and events, something that wasn't possible before bloggers rebelled against the traditional means of distributing news and information.