On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Rich Kulawiec <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 > _______________________________________________ > tl;dr -- Imri Goldberg -------------------------------------- www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/ -------------------------------------- -- insert signature here ----
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