On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Imri Goldberg wrote:
> 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
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>>
>
> tl;dr
heheheheh
See? Getting a point across doesn't have to be even two words such as
"your loss".
Gadi.
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