Comments on: A Word on Blog Responsibility http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/ Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:46:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: extramsg http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7983 extramsg Tue, 01 May 2007 16:54:17 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7983 I'll always be willing to say you're full of shit. Feel better? I’ll always be willing to say you’re full of shit. Feel better?

]]> By: natty http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7982 natty Tue, 01 May 2007 14:37:25 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7982 i didn't mean to come off as if 'why are you telling us this?' i guess, i wish we could all just soak in information via whichever blog you read from and just take it for what it is. but this is the idealist in me. the metroblog is one of my top 5 blogs that i check on a daily basis. keep up the good work. natty i didn’t mean to come off as if ‘why are you telling us this?’ i guess, i wish we could all just soak in information via whichever blog you read from and just take it for what it is. but this is the idealist in me. the metroblog is one of my top 5 blogs that i check on a daily basis. keep up the good work. natty

]]> By: warner http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7981 warner Tue, 01 May 2007 13:40:11 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7981 Rusty, I think I get your point here, and I appreciate your caution to us readers. I have my regular tour of blogs each day, with this one being the first on my list. So I think I understand what you're saying. Yes we "should" know we need to take blogs with a grain of salt, but "should" is a concept that is not always obvious. And it doesn't hurt to remind people. So thanks, and keep on doing what you do. And the same to the rest of the Metrobloggers. Rusty, I think I get your point here, and I appreciate your caution to us readers. I have my regular tour of blogs each day, with this one being the first on my list. So I think I understand what you’re saying. Yes we “should” know we need to take blogs with a grain of salt, but “should” is a concept that is not always obvious. And it doesn’t hurt to remind people. So thanks, and keep on doing what you do. And the same to the rest of the Metrobloggers.

]]> By: Rusty http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7980 Rusty Tue, 01 May 2007 01:59:12 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7980 Nat - I guess part of my point is that, with blogs, "discretion" can be lacking. On the part of the reader and, just as importantly (in fact, maybe more), the writer. Especially when our subject matter isn't self-selecting. They don't have the benefit of any discretion except that of the authors. I'm not trying to stir the pot. I'm just attempting to insert some caution in a process which, for me at least, could use it. In terms of this Godwin fellow, the law is interesting. I'd dispute it if I hadn't just provided proof... Nat – I guess part of my point is that, with blogs, “discretion” can be lacking. On the part of the reader and, just as importantly (in fact, maybe more), the writer. Especially when our subject matter isn’t self-selecting. They don’t have the benefit of any discretion except that of the authors. I’m not trying to stir the pot. I’m just attempting to insert some caution in a process which, for me at least, could use it.

In terms of this Godwin fellow, the law is interesting. I’d dispute it if I hadn’t just provided proof…

]]> By: no one in particular http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7979 no one in particular Tue, 01 May 2007 01:36:48 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7979 Godwin's Law says "as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one". <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law</a> Usually, though, you're comparing someone else to Hitler. Yours is the first I've seen where the writer compares himself to Hitler. Ha. Godwin’s Law says “as an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one”.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law

Usually, though, you’re comparing someone else to Hitler. Yours is the first I’ve seen where the writer compares himself to Hitler. Ha.

]]> By: natty http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7978 natty Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:05 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7978 ummmmmm...you write on your blog because you want to share 'something' with the world: your audience. your audience should know that whatever blog world they enter that it is at their own discretion. isn't it known that you, the reader, should KNOW that a blog is nothing more than shared information and to be taken with a grain of salt. was this blog entry created JUST to get a rise out of people? not sure what the point here was. just continue sharing, throwing out hopscotch sitings and stories about where's the beef, are totally my favorites. ;) natty ummmmmm…you write on your blog because you want to share ’something’ with the world: your audience. your audience should know that whatever blog world they enter that it is at their own discretion. isn’t it known that you, the reader, should KNOW that a blog is nothing more than shared information and to be taken with a grain of salt. was this blog entry created JUST to get a rise out of people? not sure what the point here was. just continue sharing, throwing out hopscotch sitings and stories about where’s the beef, are totally my favorites. ;)
natty

]]> By: Rusty http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7977 Rusty Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:28:33 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7977 Depends. What is it? Depends. What is it?

]]> By: no one in particular http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7976 no one in particular Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:34:09 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7976 Are you the first person to invoke Godwin's Law on himself? Are you the first person to invoke Godwin’s Law on himself?

]]> By: Rusty http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7975 Rusty Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:14:10 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7975 A valid *but*. Whether that authority is actually deserved isn't something that people often think through, and that, I suppose, is a large point of my post. I guess that's a media-wide issue: people grant authority on those talking to them, by virtue, to a large extent, of the fact that the person is simply willing to share. But people listened to Hitler, too, and granted him authority because he was willing to spout off. I don't think I'm Hitler, or that any of the Metbloggers are Hitler, but I do think that simply accepting what we say without examining it is problematic. And my issue isn't with all readers. A lot of people read what I right and realize that I'm a blow-hard. It's the people who find something I write while doing random Google searches (like, for instance, on my own blog, where I wrote about Jason Whitlock a couple of weeks ago, which has netted me a TON of traffic, despite the fact that I only know what I know of Jason Whitlock from about 35 minutes worth of reading up on him) and decide to rely on that who I'm most concerned with. Because, for all I know, they think I'm a Jason Whitlock guru. And that isn't fair to Jason Whitlock, nor to the person who's using my limited perspective to learn more about him... A valid *but*. Whether that authority is actually deserved isn’t something that people often think through, and that, I suppose, is a large point of my post. I guess that’s a media-wide issue: people grant authority on those talking to them, by virtue, to a large extent, of the fact that the person is simply willing to share.

But people listened to Hitler, too, and granted him authority because he was willing to spout off. I don’t think I’m Hitler, or that any of the Metbloggers are Hitler, but I do think that simply accepting what we say without examining it is problematic.

And my issue isn’t with all readers. A lot of people read what I right and realize that I’m a blow-hard. It’s the people who find something I write while doing random Google searches (like, for instance, on my own blog, where I wrote about Jason Whitlock a couple of weeks ago, which has netted me a TON of traffic, despite the fact that I only know what I know of Jason Whitlock from about 35 minutes worth of reading up on him) and decide to rely on that who I’m most concerned with. Because, for all I know, they think I’m a Jason Whitlock guru. And that isn’t fair to Jason Whitlock, nor to the person who’s using my limited perspective to learn more about him…

]]> By: RAH http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/comment-page-1/#comment-7974 RAH Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:58:24 +0000 http://portland.metblogs.com/2007/04/30/a-word-on-blog-responsibility/#comment-7974 Yes, *but*... Since you've been given this platform on this web site as someone who can post articles, it does confer a bit of authority on you that the rest of the vast unwashed don't have. Yes, *but*…

Since you’ve been given this platform on this web site as someone who can post articles, it does confer a bit of authority on you that the rest of the vast unwashed don’t have.

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