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Implicitly in contrast is a loud minority of newbs, with their resume-building blogs that have an about-me page, a picture of themselves, and reposting/paraphra
by shrughes 14y ago
Implicitly in contrast is a loud minority of newbs, with their resume-building blogs that have an about-me page, a picture of themselves, and reposting/paraphrases of old Joel on Software posts.
- tomrod 14y agoHey, we newbs can contribute SOMETHING--namely useful content for other newbs (that rises above the noise). Newbs have to learn somewhere, and if experts aren't contributing, then to whom do we turn?
- tomrod 14y agoI'm surprised to see the above comment got downvoted. Do people think that excited acolytes contribute nothing?
- zumda 14y agoI agree with you. There are things that the experts don't want to talk about (because it's too easy) and then there are things that a beginner can explain in a simpler way than an expert. Staying in a beginners mind is hard once you have spent some time with a technology. It also sometimes offers great points for the experts what could change, because it could be easier or is simply unclear. Of course there are very simple-minded blogs with practically no content, but there are also simple-minded Github accounts that offer practically nothing. There are CVs for the same purpose. I don't think this has anything to do with blogging per se.
- FrojoS 14y agoAs one among them, I agree. As far as I know, most Wikipedia articles were mainly written by students, not experts.