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OUTSTANDING WAY TO slice and dice - how about Condie and Colin - as foremost intellectual leads?

Posted by John at March 6, 2005 10:38 AM

Tom,

I hate to throw water on your blogging parade, but if I wanted to read Halley's stuff soooo much, I'd go to her blog. I'm not being critical of Halley because she's a very thoughtful person, but sometiemes silence is golden.

Thanks Halley for filling in. I like your stuff, but I come here to read Tom's stuff.

Posted by Johm at March 6, 2005 11:01 AM

Thanks for the feedback, Johnm. I love Tom's writing too.

So you don't like any of the other contributors either and suggest we should all disappear?

If only Tom's writing counts, then I assume you would also suggest that we shouldn't invite readers to comment either, eh?

I guess then, this is where we all disagree, because here at TP.com, we LIKE a diversity of voices, including yours.

Posted by Halley at March 6, 2005 1:19 PM

Halley,

Don't get offended. Your logical extension of a harmless opinion suggests a thin skin, which, as a blogger, I assume you know is a weakness. I read the commenter to say that he liked your work.

I didn't read that Johnm wanted to get rid of all guests or comments, or that he didn't like diversity.

That was really a nasty thing to say to someone.

Posted by Todd at March 6, 2005 8:39 PM

Halley,

You handled Johnm with the grace and poise.

Thanks for promoting diversity of thought and expression.

Erick

Posted by Erick Blackwelder at March 6, 2005 10:34 PM

I think if you visit worthwhile.com you'll see Tom Peters Posting there too.. I wonder if these same comments will be posted on TP's Posting on Worthwhile eh ?? ..like sayin.. I come to Worthwhile to read worthwhile posting only..and not TP posting !!

Its all about converstations taking place. Deal with it. No, I don't think that JohnM's comments are unfair. Its just that he has his own opionion. I have said this before and I'll say it again.. TP can invite whomever he wants to post on his blog.. If tis worthy reading.. I'll digest..else ..like someone said "silence is golden" !!

It does not matter who posts. What matters is that we keep an open mind to everyone..even those who have the time to spend on constructive critism's !!

Ok lets go back to the discourse ?? "For all the talk about "a community of voices" that blogging has created, white male voices seem to be a lot louder and well-known than others in the blogosphere." -

What drives this statement Halley ?? is it opnions or do you have factoids ?? I think the Jap's have the most number of blogs in circuit .. Just that in the north Americas..we dont't follow em blogs.. !! The community of practices need not only be immersed in blogsphere.. I think there are other areas which have a more activity --e.g. meetup.com, flick'r, myspaces.com ?? Theres a very thick forest of community's in those areas too.. just not measured --yet !!

Secondly, how does one derive at the ethinicity of the blogger ??? (everyones a dog on the internet and nobody knows it!!) Do we pulse each and every blogger ??

and finally " a lot louder and well-known than others in the blogosphere." Where is the rationality behind that echo?? I can fire away multiple feeds of peeps who within their own echo chamber have a much richer and meaningfull dialouge on person2person basis rather then all the Rebecca's M, Jeff Jarvis, Dan Gillmors or Hoder's or for that matter of fact TP.com or my own blog..!! Question i play.. How do you measure "loudness" ? is it number of links to your post ?? Or the number of comments on your post ?? or the number of hits to your posting ??

Theres no scale metrics for blogs --its still undefined... if they can ever be defined shoot me a pointer !! :)-

Posted by /pd at March 6, 2005 10:35 PM

Tom and Halley, this was your last chance. I followed your links. I read negrophile, negroplease. Besides the photos of kissing lipstick lesbians, I don't think I have been missing anything.

http://www.tonypierce.com/blog/bloggy.htm

"BushCo could re-write Pimp if they wanted. they shook down america, stole, lied, fucked, bashed, and told the country to go out there and get that money."

Yawn.

Posted by Yawn at March 8, 2005 9:09 PM

JohnM may be on to something, and it's unfair to malign him for his comment.

I know that my pulse quickens when a new article shows up on one of my subscribed RSS feeds. OK, that's a little geeky when you see it in writing, LOL, but anyone who has succumbed to the lure of blog feeds knows what I'm talking about.

I also know that I have priorities -- some feeds are more valuable/entertaining/meaningful/flat-out fun than others. When I read articles, I go to those trusted feeds first. Some of that trust was earned through other media (Tom Peters' books, for example) and some was earned online.

Either way, I have to say that I agree with JohnM in that I am slightly disappointed when I see a new article on Tom's feed and click on it only to find that it's a post by someone else. Dealing with this issue need not be difficult: multiple RSS feeds can be created that allow subscribers to pick Tom only, Tom and all his friends, or everyone but Tom for that matter.

Or you can tell us all to screw ourselves and we'll either learn to deal with the fact that this feed is a community effort (and a good one at that) or we'll unsubscribe. Which, BTW, would bring Halley's feed one rung higher on the must-read scale.

Posted by Ken King | King Marketing at March 11, 2005 4:13 AM