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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote: >Something totally off the wall, but I think some >here might have informed opinions: > >Should blog owners prune their blogs? Should >they prune responses that are not in agreement >with the theme of their blogs? > >For example: if I write a blog supporting Longhorn >and XAML, should I prune out responses from XULies >who simply don't like XAML? > > Do what you want. However, note cuddly Andrew Sullivan's comments to the Online News Association conference last week, that a blog is (or improves by becoming) a conversation; contrast that with other media which must be monologues or at best dialogues. http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_11.html#005141 But note that Sullivan edits and only puts online the most interesting parts of the responses he sends, IIRC. Like the "Letters to the Editor" in a newspaper. So there are a multitude of private conversations, and then the public "conversation" which is highly artificial. So it is not a conversation in the sense that you are reading Sullivan and others interact equally, it is Sullivan giving reports of interesting things others have written to him, and he seems to feel that this feedback is important for him to know whether his readers understand him and, more importantly, to give stimulus and space to amend his views. It is attempt to figure out how to be as doctrinaire as is good and yet at the same time politely accept fallibility. Cheers Rick
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