The other non-trivial relevant issue was that at launch time he panned Squidoo as spam<p>flamed Squidoo in the mainstream press so often that he got them penalized 
<a href="http://searchengineland.com/search-spam-fight-mahalo-1-squidoo-0-11671" rel="nofollow">http://searchengineland.com/search-spam-fight-mahalo-1-squid...</a>
(all so he could promote Mahalo)<p>....<p>fast forward the clock a couple years and Jason is operating well outside of Google's guidelines, massively auto-generating scraped content web pages. The auto-generating scraped pages are far worse than anything Squidoo ever did.<p>Jason publicly claims an ignorance of SEO to act like he doesn't know any better, then inside his corporate sales material the key selling point is SEO.<p>How can he both be ignorant of SEO and use it as his key selling point?