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via http://jarandhel.tumblr.com/post/22338614031:Chasing Caribou: Anon makes an interesting point. This is the internet and it is a...:
chasingcaribou:
Anon makes an interesting point.
This is the internet and it is a public medium, and we have a habit of treating everything as an open forum even if it was meant to have a small public audience.
Offline we might be in a park and hear a small group of people discussing a subject, but we would…
I would counter that responding to a public post is not the equivalent of being in a park and hearing a small group of people discussing a subject. It’s the equivalent of being in a park and seeing someone with a bullhorn espousing their views on a subject and inviting others to debate with them.
Another analogy that would apply is this: it’s the equivalent of someone publishing their views in a newspaper, with others having the option to respond with their own letter to the editor. Blogging is publishing. It’s making your views available for the public to read and respond to. That’s it’s nature. It is not, ever, a conversation with a small group of people unless you use technological means to filter it so only that group of people can read it.
chasingcaribou:
Anon makes an interesting point.
This is the internet and it is a public medium, and we have a habit of treating everything as an open forum even if it was meant to have a small public audience.
Offline we might be in a park and hear a small group of people discussing a subject, but we would…
I would counter that responding to a public post is not the equivalent of being in a park and hearing a small group of people discussing a subject. It’s the equivalent of being in a park and seeing someone with a bullhorn espousing their views on a subject and inviting others to debate with them.
Another analogy that would apply is this: it’s the equivalent of someone publishing their views in a newspaper, with others having the option to respond with their own letter to the editor. Blogging is publishing. It’s making your views available for the public to read and respond to. That’s it’s nature. It is not, ever, a conversation with a small group of people unless you use technological means to filter it so only that group of people can read it.
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