On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 01:06:35AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote: > I already have a blog, which allows me to publish content in more than 140 > characters. > > What is the allure? Please, tell me.
Ah, it appeals directly to the "sound bite" crowd -- those who prefer information (including news) delivered to them in snippets, easily digested with the smallest cognitive effort. These are people who reduce politics to slogans and philosophy to bumper stickers. They're largely incapable and/or unwilling of reading -- let alone writing -- anything substantive, cogent and nuanced. These are the people for whom "Headline News" equates to "serious journalism", and whose attention span is so short that they require an "executive summary" for a one page document. And these are the people whose bloated egos are such that they imagine the rest of world is actually interested in their off-the-cuff random remarks. Oh, there *are* a few -- very few -- people whose wit and intelligence are such that their odd musings are possibly of interest; but most of those people have the humility to realize that even their prose usually requires care in composition and editing before publication. ---Rsk _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
