Re: Tweet This: I Don't Care

[Gadi Evron <ge () linuxbox org>]

On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Imri Goldberg wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk () gsp org> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 01:06:35AM -0700, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> > > I already have a blog, which allows me to publish content in more than
> > 140
> > > characters.
> > >
> > > What is the allure? Please, tell me.
> >
> > Ah, it appeals directly to the "sound bite" crowd -- those who prefer
> > information (including news) delivered to them in snippets, easily digested
> > with the smallest cognitive effort.  These are people who reduce politics
> > to slogans and philosophy to bumper stickers.  They're largely incapable
> > and/or unwilling of reading -- let alone writing -- anything substantive,
> > cogent and nuanced.  These are the people for whom "Headline News" equates
> > to "serious journalism", and whose attention span is so short that they
> > require an "executive summary" for a one page document.
> >
> > And these are the people whose bloated egos are such that they imagine
> > the rest of world is actually interested in their off-the-cuff random
> > remarks.  Oh, there *are* a few -- very few -- people whose wit and
> > intelligence are such that their odd musings are possibly of interest;
> > but most of those people have the humility to realize that even their
> > prose usually requires care in composition and editing before publication.
> >
> > ---Rsk
> > _______________________________________________
>
> tl;dr

heheheheh

See? Getting a point across doesn't have to be even two words such as 
"your loss".

        Gadi.


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