On May 3, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
* Jonathan Rockway <j...@jrock.us> [2009-05-03 08:00]:
This is why Perl people should blog more.
Agreed, that helps up to a point. But you can’t natter on about
*every* module at the same level of noise.
I vehemently agree. At the risk of derailing this thread, I'll
digress to say the Iron Man blogging competition has actually made me
read fewer posts -- my initial impression was that the quality of a
post was lower if it mentioned Iron Man in the first sentence.
If you blog because you are inspired to say something important to the
community, then I want to read it. If you blog every time you release
a module, or just because mst told you to, then you are just lowering
the signal-to-noise ratio.
High S/N means optimizing quality/quantity. Jonathan's simply-stated
opinion pushes to increase the denominator, which may help increase
the visibility of the community but hurts inside the community.
Chris
