Comments on: Schmoozing and Related Arts http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/ Technology | Publishing | Games | New Media | Philippines Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:45:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dave Newton http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-99240 Dave Newton Mon, 30 Jul 2007 23:37:54 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/#comment-99240 Blogging is a big world...maybe bigger than the planet. And it's messy, like freedom, which is why I love it. I just believe in paying attention to the "man behind the curtain," and pointing him out. Blogging is a big world…maybe bigger than the planet. And it’s messy, like freedom, which is why I love it. I just believe in paying attention to the “man behind the curtain,” and pointing him out.

]]> By: Juned http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-99148 Juned Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:00:01 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/#comment-99148 Sorry. What I meant to say was: "Whose favourite toast comes from Scotland and it goes something like this. Here’s to you as good as your are And here’s to me as bad as I am But as good as you are as bad as I am I am as good as you are as bad as I am :)" Sorry. What I meant to say was: “Whose favourite toast comes from Scotland and it goes something like this.

Here’s to you as good as your are
And here’s to me as bad as I am
But as good as you are as bad as I am
I am as good as you are as bad as I am :) ”

]]> By: Juned http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-99141 Juned Mon, 30 Jul 2007 15:29:41 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/#comment-99141 Nice post. Me? I am just a 21st Century pamphleteer. Whose favourite toast comes from Scotland and it goes some Here's to you as good as your are And here's to me as bad as I am But as good as you are as bad as I am I am as good as you are as bad as I am :) Nice post. Me? I am just a 21st Century pamphleteer. Whose favourite toast comes from Scotland and it goes some

Here’s to you as good as your are
And here’s to me as bad as I am
But as good as you are as bad as I am
I am as good as you are as bad as I am :)

]]> By: Jayvee http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-99129 Jayvee Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:47:44 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/#comment-99129 kate, you're very generous with your comments. now that you're back from the US, i can pester you all i want :) kate, you’re very generous with your comments.

now that you’re back from the US, i can pester you all i want :)

]]> By: Kate http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/comment-page-1/#comment-99128 Kate Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:31:33 +0000 http://abuggedlife.com/2007/07/30/schmoozing-and-related-arts/#comment-99128 You have as much of a point as Dave Newton. You see, Jayvee, you belong to what I like to call "intelligent bloggers"—those who have a background in journalism. You've learned the fundamentals of writing and editing, thanks to your former jobs in print and broadcast journalism. You know how to edit your own works for grammatical and spelling errors. You avoid run-on sentences. I doubt the other side of the spectrum—the ones I like to refer to as “non-journalist bloggers"—even know what run-on sentences are. These bloggers, I admit, are witty and interesting—so witty that the audience overlooks the fact that he/she can’t spell correctly. Heck, most of these bloggers write so many grammatically incorrect sentences with non-credible sources that one wonders if they actually passed high school English. Unfortunately, they outnumber the intelligent bloggers. Sadly, they make more hits than you. They make more money by writing about their sexcapades and their social-climbing feats to feed the escapism needs of their readers. Perhaps this side of the blogging scale is what Dave Newton was referring to. I’ve always been anti-blog, you know that. I have respect for only a very few bloggers—and you are one of them. The rest, to me, are in the same level as this generation’s emo teenagers who think that having a popular MySpace or Facebook site is the coolest thing in the world. You have as much of a point as Dave Newton. You see, Jayvee, you belong to what I like to call “intelligent bloggers”—those who have a background in journalism. You’ve learned the fundamentals of writing and editing, thanks to your former jobs in print and broadcast journalism. You know how to edit your own works for grammatical and spelling errors. You avoid run-on sentences. I doubt the other side of the spectrum—the ones I like to refer to as “non-journalist bloggers”—even know what run-on sentences are. These bloggers, I admit, are witty and interesting—so witty that the audience overlooks the fact that he/she can’t spell correctly. Heck, most of these bloggers write so many grammatically incorrect sentences with non-credible sources that one wonders if they actually passed high school English. Unfortunately, they outnumber the intelligent bloggers. Sadly, they make more hits than you. They make more money by writing about their sexcapades and their social-climbing feats to feed the escapism needs of their readers. Perhaps this side of the blogging scale is what Dave Newton was referring to.

I’ve always been anti-blog, you know that. I have respect for only a very few bloggers—and you are one of them. The rest, to me, are in the same level as this generation’s emo teenagers who think that having a popular MySpace or Facebook site is the coolest thing in the world.

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