Comments on: More notes on blogging

By: How to Make Blog

How to Make Blog — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:59:16 +0000

Great post Felix

Almost like some blog etiquette! ;)

By: Liane YoungBlogger

Liane YoungBlogger — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:54:55 +0000

Yes, of course it is human nature to criticize a weak point.

By: James Kwak

James Kwak — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:14:52 +0000

I probably didn’t express myself clearly in the bit you quoted. (Now I’m starting to sound like a politician, insisting I was taken out of context.) What I meant to say is that if you want other bloggers to link to you, then you need to have an original perspective. As for simply providing a service to your readers, I don’t think you need to have an original perspective. You may still disagree with the point I was trying to make.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:57:26 +0000

Uh, Dave… from the prickly way you’re overreacting, maybe the adjective was spot-on.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:18:15 +0000

I strive for clear communication and understanding. I find that labels interfere with that. If you look up curmudgeon, you’ll find it’s not a very nice thing to say about someone, esp for a younger person to say about someone who is older.

By: Felix Salmon

Felix Salmon — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:13:19 +0000

Sorry Dave. Possibly a bad choice of words. I didn’t particularly mean it in a pejorative manner. I kinda aspire to curmudgeonliness myself.

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:06:31 +0000

Actually it’s a growing segment — Twitter, with its 140 character limit — is being used to carry news. That means we’re going to have to get better at writing synopses and means more feeds with descriptions instead of full content.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:17:59 +0000

I used to work at Bloomberg. They appear convinced that their content must be “actionable” by traders, who comprise the bulk of their subscriber base.

They will argue that they have talked to their customers and that their customers have told them that these headlines are important.

I don’t doubt that they have done this.

That said, I think they generally miss the point that you make, which is that truncated feeds please a minority of consumers of news.

By: Adam Sherk

Adam Sherk — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:05:44 +0000

It does seem like an unnecessary use of “curmudgeonly.” I’d have to say Dave’s comment on James’ post seems pretty straightforward

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:49:12 +0000

Hi Felix — I was just expressing an opinion, why did you think it was “curmudgeonly?” Not a very nice thing to say, imho.

Isn’t it possible that you and I just have a difference of opinion and that doesn’t mean there’s anything wrong with either of us?