Comments on: A Few More Critters for Amy’s Menagerie (Courtesy of the Porcupine Anti-Defamation Scoiety) http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/28/a-few/ Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:10:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: tom http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/28/a-few/#comment-1133 tom Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/28/a-few-more-critters-for-amys-menagerie-courtesy-of-the-porcupine-anti-defamation-scoiety/#comment-1133 Just the sheer volume of writing you find necessary to post with regard to this topic only validates for me that you are a porcupine ... and you are flame bait. Which would you rather be: someone who can brush things off because you know they don't really apply to you on a personal level, or someone who is seeing everything as an attack and reacting to it? Just the sheer volume of writing you find necessary to post with regard to this topic only validates for me that you are a porcupine … and you are flame bait.

Which would you rather be: someone who can brush things off because you know they don’t really apply to you on a personal level, or someone who is seeing everything as an attack and reacting to it?

]]> By: Alan Levine http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/28/a-few/#comment-1134 Alan Levine Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://cogdogblog.com/2005/01/28/a-few-more-critters-for-amys-menagerie-courtesy-of-the-porcupine-anti-defamation-scoiety/#comment-1134 That is an interesting observation, Tom, on my writing. I actually mulled over what I read on Amy's site for a day or so in the back of my mind, but my blog composing software makes writing long things easy. But the topics and volume of my blog posts for January 2005 do not support your contention: <a href="http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/2005_01.php">http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/2005_01.php</a> Topics include: use of tech at maricopa / my projects 7 flickr 6 tagging/folksonomy 5 rss / feed2js 5 fighting comment spam 3 web feedback 3 amy / porcupines / "professional blogging" 3 odd web sites 2 small pieces loosely joined 2 blogging 2 interesting sites 2 audio technology 2 personal / off topic 2 web design 1 learning objects 1 browser tools 1 movable type how to 1 I don't know you, I don;t know Amy, you do not know me. Weinberger's books makes the distinctions you might be missing- the disconnect between who we are online and who we are as people. So here is a clue to the real me- I brush everything off and like I said, do not take myself seriously. Nor did I feel "attacked"-- is everything that is not a gushing positive reply and attack? Talk abiout being sensitive to criticism and taking things personally.... Odd. I like to stir things up- as my favorite author Edward Abbey wrote, "Society is like a stew... if you don't stir it up once in a while, all the scum will rise to the top." PS- Interesting that Amy's Porcupine Strategy suggestion is to ignore us -- so it is her husband who shows up with a comment?? <a href="http://blog.contentious.com/archives/2004/08/29/ok-your-turn-to-talk">http://blog.contentious.com/archives/2004/08/29/ok-your-turn-to-talk</a> That is an interesting observation, Tom, on my writing. I actually mulled over what I read on Amy’s site for a day or so in the back of my mind, but my blog composing software makes writing long things easy.

But the topics and volume of my blog posts for January 2005 do not support your contention:

http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/alan/archives/2005_01.php

Topics include:

use of tech at maricopa / my projects 7

flickr 6

tagging/folksonomy 5

rss / feed2js 5

fighting comment spam 3

web feedback 3

amy / porcupines / “professional blogging” 3

odd web sites 2

small pieces loosely joined 2

blogging 2

interesting sites 2

audio technology 2

personal / off topic 2

web design 1

learning objects 1

browser tools 1

movable type how to 1

I don’t know you, I don;t know Amy, you do not know me. Weinberger’s books makes the distinctions you might be missing- the disconnect between who we are online and who we are as people. So here is a clue to the real me- I brush everything off and like I said, do not take myself seriously.

Nor did I feel “attacked”– is everything that is not a gushing positive reply and attack? Talk abiout being sensitive to criticism and taking things personally…. Odd.

I like to stir things up- as my favorite author Edward Abbey wrote, “Society is like a stew… if you don’t stir it up once in a while, all the scum will rise to the top.”

PS- Interesting that Amy’s Porcupine Strategy suggestion is to ignore us — so it is her husband who shows up with a comment??

http://blog.contentious.com/archives/2004/08/29/ok-your-turn-to-talk

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