BurningbirdFirst published at Many-to-Many now archived at the Wayback Machine Years ago, long before the web, I was involved with a Usenet group surrounding the POSC data effort. I remember getting into a conversation with one of the folks about the inevitability of disagreements. His belief was that people naturally were cooperative and will argue […]
It would seem that some people think my anger and unhappiness over edits being made to my comments is overreaction. After all, they say, It’s Sam’s spot. What is my problem? Funny. I thought they were my words. And it does give me cause to wonder about how much people stand by their own words, […]
Just published newest Many-to-Many weblog posting. Unfortunately, no permalinks, and no comments. Ironic considering the topic… If we all thought alike and agreed on most things, we’d all be pretty boring and would spend our time sitting around, exchanging daily epiphanies with each other. However, depending on the nature of The Bomb, your comment thread […]
I’m in the midst of trying to write my next essay for my guest stint at Many-to-Many. I was originally going to write an essay about weblogs such as Little Green Footballs followed by one about discussion lists such as MetaFilter, but I was sidetracked by an issue having to do with comments. So I find myself in the […]
Originally published at Many-to-Many now archived at the Wayback Machine Every once in a while I let someone talk me into using an instant messaging service, such as ICQ. I would forget that I had it installed and be working happily away on some book or article, or doing my taxes when there’d be this […]