• June 20th, 2007 • 2 comments
A Blogger’s Agreement
I saw a couple of minutes ago “Oliver Reinchestein’s comment about OpenSpace”:http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/06/20/introducing-openspace/#comments, and he corrected me three times about what they did.
This week, I also “posted about Chris’s case”:http://montrealtechwatch.com/2007/06/18/is-there-freedom-of-speech-in-canada-i-am-not-so-sure-today/ and then, I read “more details the same day”:http://blog.fagstein.com/?p=414. Steve Faguy says it’s not a freedom of speech but a freedom of expression issue and that there were many false assumptions in the posts published about the case.
I remember also “this music video I hated when I first watched it”:http://heri.madmedia.ca/articles/2007/04/30/i-hate-the-music-industry-and-sarah-mclachlan. It seems I was wrong and that the producers of the videos were planning something different than what I thought.
In all three cases, I made assumptions, I took shortcuts and I was wrong. I apologize for that. In fact, the problem was that I wrote them during the _action_, in the heat of emotion. Now, I would like in the future to go beyond that, without killing the spontaneity - and get more insightful words. It just crossed my mind that I might be contributing more to noise than signal on the Internet.
I have thought about this - and I am considering stopping blogging …. no, wait, that was a joke. No, I am considering an agreement or a contract that I would take, me with this blog, a pledge that would require each of my posts to be:
* insightful, for everybody, and especially for people who go here,
* funny,
* speaking about real-word experience, not just about something I read on the internet and about people I have never seen in real life,
Those are 3 temporary “requirements” I found. Of course, that would have a lot of consequences, mainly much less posts on heri.madmedia.ca. But on the long term, I think it would be much better, for everybody.
So here it is. My goal for the next post is write this “agreement” - I would need to come up with an agreement, yet cool, yet inspiring, yet reminding me to think and do more, and go to the next level.
Wish me luck.
June 24th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Heri,
Personally, i tend to stay away from blog’s which promote baseless facts or present spurious claims. Or at least, i take them with a pinch of salt.
In any case, having an agreement sounds like a good idea, if only for you to give yourself an indication of where your blog is heading.
Good luck!
Regards
James
p.s. I have tagged you with the 8 random facts meme. If you have the time, and of course if it fits in with your agreement, please join in.
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