Re: [syndication] Why characterize at all?

["Dave Winer" <dave@userland.com>]

OK, but xml-hack is supposed to be practicing something like journalism,
right? It's not fiction is it? Why not disclaim that right at the top. This
site practices fantasy.

Anyway, I guess that's your point of view? That anyone who disagrees with
you is cold and threatening? Hmmm. If so, this is going to be a very
immature conversation!

Have a nice day! (Seriously, that's not cold or threatening, is it??)

;->

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric van der Vlist" <vdv@dyomedea.com>
To: <syndication@egroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2000 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: [syndication] Why characterize at all?


> Dave,
>
> Dave Winer wrote:
> >
> > I just read this otherwise fair account of the discussion here.
> >
> > http://xmlhack.com/read.php?item=621
> >
> > I have one complaint, I don't like having my posts being characterized
as
> > threatening or cold.
> >
> > I think they were the opposite, accomodating and warm.
> >
> > Why characterize at all?
>
> Because, unlike text extractors robots, we are writing our articles with
> our brain, but also with our guts.
>
> I think that it's one of the reasons why some people seem to enjoy
> reading our short stories and ,eventually, a part of our added value.
>
> We trust our readers to be able to make their own analysis, though, and
> to facilitate this we take care to clearly differentiate our personal
> feelings from the raw facts, provide wide extracts as quotation and as
> many links as available to the original uncharacterized documents.
>
> Thanks for your interest for my story ;=)
>
> Eric
>
> > Just the facts ma'am. ;->
> >
> > Dave
> >
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