On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Rich Kulawiec 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
Okay okay, you have me there. :) > 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 > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
