On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Gadi Evron <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> >> tl;dr >> > > heheheheh > > See? Getting a point across doesn't have to be even two words such as "your > loss". > > Gadi. > > Nobody got what I meant anyway (although the unrelated Haiku bit got close). I should have quoted Mark Twain: To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. I tried to look for better quotes, and I did find Pascal's, which is near enough: I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had time to make it shorter. -- Imri Goldberg -------------------------------------- www.algorithm.co.il/blogs/ -------------------------------------- -- insert signature here ----
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