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Monday, September 22, 2003 |
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to displace Google even with all the metadata and micro-content that Joi might imagine. At least that is how it seems to me given that they've already indexed the comments on Joi's If I were Microsoft... post from two days ago so that I was able to search the web for Dave Winer's "You can't have it both ways mah man." comment and find that it only occurs in that one place. (I thought that perhaps it was a phrase that he'd used before and thought would have some impact from its repetition.)
Now, I'm sure that Joi--being an A-list blogger and all--is on a frequent refresh cycle, but I still think that is cool. |
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Read two posts recently that I think demonstrated the use of rhetorical devices that I don't find as effective as their authors apparently do. I ran across the first in a response to a post on The Chutry Experiment about the entry of General Wesley Clark into the race for the Democratic nomination. Here the author posts using the pseudonym Wesley Clark. (At least I think it is a pretty safe assumption that the posts are not, in fact, from either the Wesley Clark or even a Wesley Clark.) Anonymous posting (at least when no pressing need for anonymity is apparent) detracts from the force of your argument. Clearly pseudonymous posting does so even more.
The second example is also found is a response. In this case, it is a response to a post on Joi Ito's Web titled If I were Microsoft.... In his response, Dave Winer addresses someone (I think it's Joi, though it could be Marc Canter or the reader, in general.) as "mah man." I'm not sure what that is meant to accomplish, but it puts me right off. Starting the post by telling Marc he's "full of shit" didn't help much in my opinion, either. I doubt Dave cares, but I thought I'd mention it.
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