On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Michael Weinberg
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Also, for better or for worse, publishing your opinion on a blog seems
> to carry significant weight in tech spheres, and while I and many
> other PTPers spent about 2 years being very right about what would
> happen with Unwire Portland and MetroFi, it seemed that many bloggers
> who were very wrong drove the dialog and perpetuated myths about the
> realities of wireless service and the market for it. On the one hand,
> I hate to endorse the notion that any idiot with a keyboard and 5
> minutes to install Wordpress is an expert, but, well, we are experts
> on wireless--and certainly wireless in Portland--and if a blog helps
> the world to digest that expertise, so be it.
I think blogging is more effective because your intended audience is
more likely to read a blog than join a mailing list or browse an
archive --- not because the medium of blogging confers credibility.
("Never before have so many with so little to say said so much to so
few.") Blog posts tend to be more self-contained than mailing list
messages, so they're more satisfying to link to.
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