A couple of emails to the empyre list from jonCates lament the "estranged/strained" tone between the empyre thread and this one. He says my smartass email inviting empyre-rs to post here ("it's easy and fun!") "implied a critique of or an opposition to empyre." The blogs vs lists dynamic took shape before the discussion even began, when I asked one of the moderators what were the advantages of using emails to post messages as opposed to just uploading them directly to a central node. It wasn't a critique but a question, and I now think--heck yes this is easier, more direct, more fun, and your mailbox doesn't fill up with redundant emails. (It would be nice to sort posts by date and author, though.) But immediately after the panel started questions came up about blogs, that clearly set them in opposition to lists. As for "my" "opposition to empyre" jC doesn't allow there was anything particularly rancorous, cold, unengaged, or dismissive about the list's response to the panelists' first posts, rather, he's accusing the panelists of being rude invited guests. And to top it off, he's critiquing my RSS feed! (I assume that's what he means when he mentions SCREENFULL's "which btw, has a better snd trax.")
|
- tom moody 6-09-2005 6:20 am