Well I am still in the same company I was back when you call my industry scum (while you were selling links to shady casinos). As far as I am concerned your opportunistic jumps between companies are all part of the same general trend / strategy. You still have not changed as a person.
"i was wrong when i said it was bullshit and I have said that it was an off the cuff, uninformed statement many times."
Yes but the difference is you stand on a podium at conferences and yell to the press when you slag it off.
When you say it has value you do it on a twitter post or a quick blog post that does not even hit your homepage. You are not quite as loud in this case.
I would say to make it right you should probably need to (at a minimum)...
- Direct link out to the sites you are scraping content from. FIX THE ISSUE.
- Make an in-depth post on your blog highlighting how important SEO is to all web based businesses. Describe how you gamed social media sites and worked media and nepotistic angles to build links for Mahalo. Also describe the bait and switch public relations and attack bait angles you used to build links. Better yet...make this an in-depth case study!
- Make sure a copy of that post lands in the inboxes of your media email list and your Jason email list.
- Issue a press release announcing the above blog post.
If you do all of those then there is a pretty strong chance I will think your apology is sincere. Anything less and I will realize that this is once more another round of posturing.