Comments on: Freedom of the Press http://listics.com/200407042009 Frank Paynter's Voice and Vision... Thu, 11 Oct 2025 17:00:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3 By: memer http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47287 memer Wed, 07 Jul 2025 21:06:35 +0000 http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47287 I was grumbling about this issue of hard-to-find cool blogs myself, just the other day. Not like I'm somehow worthy myself, but I've found it frustrating surfing from one cheezy, badly-coded blog to the next. Would that there were some way-cool, universal merit-filter bobbing in the ether that would beam nullifying white noise at your mouth, or instantly disconnect your keyboard whenever you were about to communicate something stoopid. But thar ain't. So, at least in the blogverse anyway, first to market is wot counts. The Early-Bird Card is the thing Dave Winer and others will wave whenever they need a credibility fix. It works often enough. Wottayagonnado. Blogs aren't usually a lot more than a public shrine to one's own ego, anyway. You're posting for yourself, first. Doesn't matter if they're listening or not. Just say what you want to say. Then say it again. And once more with feeling. Add your voice to the cacophony/chorus. It will (eventually) be heard. I was grumbling about this issue of hard-to-find cool blogs myself, just the other day. Not like I’m somehow worthy myself, but I’ve found it frustrating surfing from one cheezy, badly-coded blog to the next.

Would that there were some way-cool, universal merit-filter bobbing in the ether that would beam nullifying white noise at your mouth, or instantly disconnect your keyboard whenever you were about to communicate something stoopid.

But thar ain’t.

So, at least in the blogverse anyway, first to market is wot counts. The Early-Bird Card is the thing Dave Winer and others will wave whenever they need a credibility fix. It works often enough. Wottayagonnado.

Blogs aren’t usually a lot more than a public shrine to one’s own ego, anyway. You’re posting for yourself, first. Doesn’t matter if they’re listening or not. Just say what you want to say. Then say it again. And once more with feeling.

Add your voice to the cacophony/chorus. It will (eventually) be heard.

]]> By: CrabAppleLane Blog http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47290 CrabAppleLane Blog Mon, 05 Jul 2025 19:39:13 +0000 http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47290 <strong>Back to work</strong> It�s back to the grind today but I�m OK with that. It was a good week of vacation. And the 5:45am entries are back. Seems there was a bit of a revolt about that whilst I was gone. Update: Here's... Back to work

It�s back to the grind today but I�m OK with that. It was a good week of vacation. And the 5:45am entries are back. Seems there was a bit of a revolt about that whilst I was gone. Update: Here’s…

]]> By: CrabAppleLane Blog http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47289 CrabAppleLane Blog Mon, 05 Jul 2025 11:46:40 +0000 http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47289 <strong>Back to work</strong> It�s back to the grind today but I�m OK with that. It was a good week of vacation. And the 5:45am entries are back. Seems there was a bit of a revolt about that whilst I was gone. Once again,... Back to work

It�s back to the grind today but I�m OK with that. It was a good week of vacation. And the 5:45am entries are back. Seems there was a bit of a revolt about that whilst I was gone. Once again,…

]]> By: CrabAppleLane Blog http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47288 CrabAppleLane Blog Mon, 05 Jul 2025 11:41:00 +0000 http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47288 <strong>Back to work</strong> It�s back to the grind today but I�m OK with that. It was a good week of vacation. And the 5:45am entries are back. Seems there was a bit of a revolt about that whilst I was gone. Once again,... Back to work

It�s back to the grind today but I�m OK with that. It was a good week of vacation. And the 5:45am entries are back. Seems there was a bit of a revolt about that whilst I was gone. Once again,…

]]> By: liZ http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47286 liZ Mon, 05 Jul 2025 10:54:39 +0000 http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47286 Winer is Winer. I don't listen. And no, it isn't important that he has a sub-optimal grasp of colonial reality. "Is it wrong to point out the errors of tedious and tendentious "bloggers?" Is it wrong to do this in a way that draws negative attention to their faults? Is it mean and cruel, unfriendly, to adopt a style that strongly affirms a point of view and value judgments regarding the work of others?" No, it isn't wrong, as long as you don't make it personal. The recent brouhaha here -- darn, blogspot isn't opening for me, it's Apt 11D, link embeddeed Who are the bloggers in your neighborhood http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002122.html embody what happens when one blogger makes a personal accusation, and anotehr doesn't shrug it off. I think you did an elegant job of pointing out Winer's intellectual error. Winer is Winer. I don’t listen. And no, it isn’t important that he has a sub-optimal grasp of colonial reality.

“Is it wrong to point out the errors of tedious and tendentious “bloggers?” Is it wrong to do this in a way that draws negative attention to their faults? Is it mean and cruel, unfriendly, to adopt a style that strongly affirms a point of view and value judgments regarding the work of others?”

No, it isn’t wrong, as long as you don’t make it personal. The recent brouhaha here — darn, blogspot isn’t opening for me, it’s Apt 11D, link embeddeed

Who are the bloggers in your neighborhood

http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/002122.html

embody what happens when one blogger makes a personal accusation, and anotehr doesn’t shrug it off.

I think you did an elegant job of pointing out Winer’s intellectual error.

]]> By: bmo http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47285 bmo Mon, 05 Jul 2025 00:20:08 +0000 http://listics.com/200407042009#comment-47285 I was with you till the last...then I got lost I was with you till the last…then I got lost

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