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Comment on If you write about writer’s block, does that officially end it? by Victoria Pickering

Victoria Pickering — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:23:13 +0000

Thanks for writing about a topic that hits all of us at some point. I saved this 43 folders article a couple of years ago, and it has been useful to reread occasionally –
http://www.43folders.com/2004/11/18/hack-your-way-out-of-writers-block
- although in your case it should be talking to a panda, not a monkey.

Comment on Privacy — or the lack thereof by Inspire

Inspire — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:34:02 +0000

Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Inspire

Comment on Privacy — or the lack thereof by Peter Juan

Peter Juan — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:46:37 +0000

I agree, few things are as cathartic as a nice rant in white heat on your blog. You're also correct however that such posts do not belong in too public a space. Which is why I'm thankful that my i.ph blog lets me select which posts can be seen by whom. There's an advantage to being able to choose your audience for specific entries and having that kind of control over my privacy helps me blog with more peace of mind. Anyway, I just wanted to share my 2 cents. Best of luck in everything. Have a good day and blog on!

Comment on Privacy — or the lack thereof by Penelope Trunk

Penelope Trunk — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 00:46:37 +0000

Hi. I liked reading your post, so I thought I’d weigh in with my two cents.. Here’s another idea to think about for deciding what topic to write on: Just write what you can write best about. Be really interesting and write clean, clever sentences. Don’t bore people. Make people think wider or deeper than they are thinking.

Doing this is so incredibly difficult that maybe we each don’t actually have a lot of choices about topic — maybe each of us, writing the best we can, can only write on the few topics that work.

This is why Hemmingway basically wrote the same book over and over again. As did most novelists. When we are writing the best we don’t choose our topics, they choose us.

Penelope

Comment on Small town people are bitter — get over it. by Privacy — or the lack thereof « The Bamboo Diaries

Privacy — or the lack thereof « The Bamboo Diaries — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 01:35:16 +0000

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Comment on Small town people are bitter — get over it. by Callaway

Callaway — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 04:00:33 +0000

Thank you so much for telling it like it is. It may have not been a politically correct statement but it’s true and the over-reaction has been rediculous.

Comment on Small town people are bitter — get over it. by Small Town People Are Bitter — Get Over It. - The Seminal :: Independent Media and Politics

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:10:24 +0000

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Comment on On Being Right by Keith Casey

Keith Casey — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 00:31:14 +0000

No disrespect felt at all. I just wanted to let you know that I wasn’t treating it as a “omg, I have to be right!” sort of scenario.

Social Media is all about figuring out who the people around you are, learning their filters and seeing how they fit with you. And I think you can learn something from just about everyone.. especially if you disagree with them.

One of my best friends in the world is a Ragin’ Socialist. We’ll go months without talking, bump into each other somewhere, and have heated discussions over coffee for hours. But when either one of us gets in a pinch on certain things, we don’t hesitate to call the other.

I like Jay Severin’s line… “Disagree without being disagreeable”.

Comment on On Being Right by bamboodiaries

bamboodiaries — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:27:56 +0000

I guess I outed myself a little by putting a link to this in my Twitter stream…so it’s Keith’s prerogative to do the same. No disrespect was intended to Keith by posting this: although we don’t share many of the same views, the debate itself was conducted most civilly. I was just pointing out my historical (and perhaps continuing) ambivalence about such discussions, after having been online for what is now two decades. It’s okay if Keith still enjoys them more than I do.

Comment on On Being Right by Keith Casey

Keith Casey — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:06:22 +0000

For outsiders, I’m the “crossing swords” guy above…

I happen to enjoy exchanging a few emails here and there hashing things out. We disagree on way more things than we agree on, but.. oh well, I’ll live. I call it “crossing swords” because I see it the same as sparring, something that can keep you sharp and maybe learn a thing or three. I see it as mental exercise.

But more than anything, I don’t go to those events to argue or debate those things at all. I go to meet people, refresh connections, and kick around ideas for business, etc.

The real debates for me usually happen over a cup of coffee with a pretty small group. I happened to have a nice long (2 hour?) debate over Atlas Shrugged with a good friend that way. We didn’t agree on a lot, but I think we understand each other a bit better.