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The anonymous writings
- swombat 17y agoInteresting idea. I look forward to seeing what it turns up. For my part, I must shamefully admit that I don't really "hold back" what I think. There are certain kinds of post (e.g. purely negative criticism/accusations) that I don't want to publish, because they are too easy to write and don't add anything to the conversation, and because I don't want to become known as "another guy who rants a lot". However, the main reason I don't publish those is the first one - I don't think they add enough to be worth polluting the internet with them. When submitting articles to this, do remember one thing: It's easy to make waves by flinging accusations and heavy-handed criticism about. It's easy to destroy. Anyone with two brain cells can do it. What's hard is to create something where there was nothing.
- davidw 17y agoYeah, exactly... I either am proud to take ownership of what I write, or it's just nasty stuff that I might tell a friend over a glass of "rosso", but that doesn't need to be written down and saved on the net.
- jmtame 17y agodefinitely not going for gossip on this. trying to stay closely to stuff that is intellectually gratifying. i'm actually not interested in gossip rag stuff at all, please don't send that.
- davidw 17y agoIf it's intellectually gratifying, why should it be anonymous? There are very few things that I can think of where that would make sense, and most of them would be research into 'politically correct' territory; i.e. definitely not hacker stuff. Interesting idea, but it just doesn't work for me...
- jmtame 17y agoit could just be something different. i know of engineers who can't fathom the idea of pitching their idea to an investor, let alone writing something that might be a great read but they don't want it to be associated with their name on a google search for whatever reason.
- rms 17y agoI do have another account where I made one particularly hilarious comment that I didn't want associated with my main pseudonym. The username for that account should be fairly obvious, but if you want to guess please do it via email.
- lucumo 17y agoWhat's with the absence of capital letters?
- anirbas 17y agoThey're obsolete, allegedly. http://jmtame.posterous.com/capitalization-is-obsolete http://jmtame.posterous.com/capitalization-is-obsolete I disagree as I have to slow right down to read writing that's all in the same case (as otherwise it 'reads' as a monotone run-on sentence) and little is worth the effort, but he makes some interesting points.