Quote of the Day.
But when any of us write something these days, it is like tiptoeing to a cage with a hunk of meat, and nervously prodding it through the bars. Sometimes the blogosphere will seem happy with the offering and the beast will briefly growl approval; and sometimes there is such a yowling and clamouring that we feel like Clarice Starling as she sets off down the corridor of mental patients, in search of Hannibal the Cannibal.
Do follow the link and read the whole piece – excellent stuff!
(Tiptoeing away from the cage for the day….)
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January 17, 2011 at 17:51 -
January 17, 2011 at 18:52 -
And in glorious Technicolor complete with explicative links for those of us unable to recall just who Clarice Starling might have been — or, twenty years or so after the momentous events, Nicolae Ceacescu, come to that — at Boris-Johnson.com.
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January 17, 2011 at 19:46 -
A nicely thought through piece from Boris, I thought. Much more constructive and reasoned than the recent outburst by Andrew Marr certainly…
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January 17, 2011 at 19:53 -
Boris makes a lot of good points, especially the one about his conversation with the editor whose readers want to punish the rich. Does the name of the paper beging with the letter G I wonder? Having tried recently to persuade American lefties that taxing the rich to penury is pointless because very few of them are actually sitting, musket across their knees, flintlock pistols at their sides and sword in hand on a sack of gold doubloons ready to repel revenue men in tricorn hats.
In the end I challenged one to a cage fight after he’d said people like me should be killed.
He wrote no further replies.
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January 17, 2011 at 20:20 -
I have learned a lot from my silly posts. For example that any error of spelling or “grammer” (see what I did there?) or fact will be picked up, and that one needs to be rigorous in every word and thought or it will come back to bite you in the bum!
The ever kind Anna let me post this weekend – under pressure of time for me, there were errors. And wasn’t I picked up on them!
I understand and respect that.
I think that for many people posting is both an expression of interesting views, and maybe also a training?
It is rough out there, but subject to two caveats. If one posts and makes a factual or grammatical mistake: OK. Take it on the chin.
Childish abuse by vandals, that’s another. That’s just nasty. And the Lord does not forgive nasty.
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January 17, 2011 at 20:38 -
Excellent piece, thanks for pointing me onto it.
“If you really put your foot in it and did something that no reader could forgive – such as confusing a yellow labrador with a golden retriever – a few people might be moved to ring the Telegraph switchboard” had me in stitches as you will understand …
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January 18, 2011 at 04:27 -
The only problem is that Boris Johnson is a columnist at a newspaper which has a online comment section. However, this is not the bloggosphere, and he is not a blogger, but mainly a repository for trolls and various other wierdos.
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January 20, 2011 at 10:04 -
I would agree with Jabba the Cat. The bloggosphere is unlimited in size. Perhaps there are many coexisting rather like universes in Hawking’s The Grand Design. It is totally hostile to those who would take their first tentative steps there and only marginally less so to the more fortunate (skilled too) and tenacious survivors. In comparison, writing for a newspaper is like a walk in the park where all dogs are on the leash and pigeons are prohibited.
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