Most people are at least vaguely familiar with Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 19th century novel about New England Puritan morality, The Scarlet Letter. In it, heroine Hester Prynne is forced to wear an “A” on her clothes after committing adultery and giving birth to an “illegitimate” child.
By analogy, I feel these days as though I’ve now got an “B” on my forehead — for blogger. Almost everyone I speak to professionally tells me this or that “is not for blogging” or “isn’t bloggable.” 
It’s getting a little silly at this point, but I guess I should take it at some level as a compliment.
April 28, 2007 at 2:29 pm |
[...] Yesterday I did a bad thing. I was trying to raise awareness of the data standards discussions occurring on the RETS-dev list, and it didn’t go over very well. I was too general when I summarized the discussions with “those for . . .” and “those against . . . “ My intent was to set out the extreme positions succinctly for clarity to an audience unfamiliar with the details of the discussions, but what was made clear to me later is that the details are very important and broad categorizations can be offensive. As one person put it, using a blog to summarize dozens of e-mails from a discussion that has years of history is “weird” and even “righteous.” Ouch. Lesson learned. [...]