[Bill,
March 21, 2008]
A reminder that this is an online notepad
Harry gets up on his soapbox, saying:
I am not the sort to impetuously post in haste and then recant, redact, and delete later. I would much rather measure my words carefully, and only post things that I am willing to stand by in the future.
Hee hee. It really gets his goat when I remove, alter or change a post — or worse, change my mind. It really bugs him when I upfront made it an editorial policy that on this writer's public note pad "all entries are considered unfinished."
See the title at the top of the page? This is an online notebook, scrawled off and batted off notes, a collection of thoughts, ideas, observations, urges, one-liners, jokes, rants, and sometimes just stuff that I haven't quite thought through and would like some input on. Bill's Notes is not a collection of online, published, completed essays. Heck, half the time I stop in the middle and just abandon the post.
Harry's welcome to his editorial policy of writing online, thoughtfully considered, published essays. And I think I'm welcome to my policy of writing whatever the heck I feel like it, when I feel like it, and then taking another look at it later and doing whatever the heck I feel like it.
Pixels ain't ink and computer screens ain't paper. For one thing, no squids or trees have to die for pixel-on-screens.
I am not the sort to impetuously post in haste and then recant, redact, and delete later. I would much rather measure my words carefully, and only post things that I am willing to stand by in the future.
Hee hee. It really gets his goat when I remove, alter or change a post — or worse, change my mind. It really bugs him when I upfront made it an editorial policy that on this writer's public note pad "all entries are considered unfinished."
See the title at the top of the page? This is an online notebook, scrawled off and batted off notes, a collection of thoughts, ideas, observations, urges, one-liners, jokes, rants, and sometimes just stuff that I haven't quite thought through and would like some input on. Bill's Notes is not a collection of online, published, completed essays. Heck, half the time I stop in the middle and just abandon the post.
Harry's welcome to his editorial policy of writing online, thoughtfully considered, published essays. And I think I'm welcome to my policy of writing whatever the heck I feel like it, when I feel like it, and then taking another look at it later and doing whatever the heck I feel like it.
Pixels ain't ink and computer screens ain't paper. For one thing, no squids or trees have to die for pixel-on-screens.