tulpje, thanks a lot. I'm sorry things aren't going better with the list this month.
jonCates and Mathieu, asking why the panelists agreed to do the list if they were so opposed to lists has a prosecutorial "when did you stop beating your wife" ring to it. I wish you'd listen cause we've been tryin' to 'splain over here what went wrong.
jonCates, it isn't just Melinda who noted the practice of the panelists linking to their pages--why, right here on this very thread there is a comment that reads but at the same time.......you guys didn't post your thoughts in the list.......it is read by people all over the world.........you made links to your blogs..........that was like being there and not............I have to admit (and I have 2 blogs) it got really annoying..........like a diss...........or a duck....................
Mathieu mentions it again today, and there were others, please don't make me hunt for them. As for Melinda's comment, I disagree that her phrase "constant referral to self" is observational and factual, it sounds like a dig (possibly an unconsciously hostile choice of words? And where is Melinda, by the way--some moderator, disappearing when her list starts to fall apart--why do you defend her so avidly?)
Just to clarify a comment of bill's "what is this, an audience or an oil painting?" is a line from comedian Henny Youngman, who probably saw a few oil paintings in the Catskills in his day. Mathieu describes the silent treatment the list gave the last invited speaker for being "supercilious"--a good moderator would have found a diplomatic way to keep the list conversation active and fair, and in the case of the unfortunate June list, kept the talented jimpunk and Linkoln in the fold. Just a stroke or two would have done it, some critical feedback about the work they were trying to show you...
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jonCates and Mathieu, asking why the panelists agreed to do the list if they were so opposed to lists has a prosecutorial "when did you stop beating your wife" ring to it. I wish you'd listen cause we've been tryin' to 'splain over here what went wrong.
jonCates, it isn't just Melinda who noted the practice of the panelists linking to their pages--why, right here on this very thread there is a comment that reads Mathieu mentions it again today, and there were others, please don't make me hunt for them. As for Melinda's comment, I disagree that her phrase "constant referral to self" is observational and factual, it sounds like a dig (possibly an unconsciously hostile choice of words? And where is Melinda, by the way--some moderator, disappearing when her list starts to fall apart--why do you defend her so avidly?)
Just to clarify a comment of bill's "what is this, an audience or an oil painting?" is a line from comedian Henny Youngman, who probably saw a few oil paintings in the Catskills in his day. Mathieu describes the silent treatment the list gave the last invited speaker for being "supercilious"--a good moderator would have found a diplomatic way to keep the list conversation active and fair, and in the case of the unfortunate June list, kept the talented jimpunk and Linkoln in the fold. Just a stroke or two would have done it, some critical feedback about the work they were trying to show you...
- tom moody 6-09-2005 8:05 pm