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When I'll join the left... Tom Maguire offers, Battle For The Blogosphere: How The Lefty Blogs Can Win The Blogosphere, Revive Their Party, And Save Our Country (And Why They Won't). He opines that righties owe their success to having organized in the blogosphere differently (the pack) than lefties (the hive). That, he supposes, is why lefties haven't traction. My comment: Interesting. I got here via Instapundit. Why come? Because I'm not interested in just MY ideas, I'm interested in GOOD ideas, and, as Montaigne said in the late 1500s, why shouldn't I run to embrace the truth when I see it coming. So, if you shut off comments, you've killed off feedback. When you are convinced, there is no reason to listen. The reason I'm not "left" (and I don't consider myself "right", but lefties put me there) is threefold: 1) In their impatience to act, they often address problems by hiding them rather than solving them, 2) Once committed, they are too brittle to consider alternatives from those who are politically incorrect enough to suggest there may be a better way, and 3) They insulate themselves from criticism by believing others are too dumb, venal, or selfish to possibly have a good idea worth weaving in to their own. Well. I'm ready to join your campaign as soon as you address these issues. Discuss (1 response) Posted by Stephen Waters on 2/16/05; 9:56:19 AM from the Comments Dept. Permanent link: #    Bloggers ARE editors Weboy, posting at PressThink, said: And maybe what I'd posit is this - the blogosphere needs editors - the traffic cops of language and content who do the hard work of codifying things, saying enough is enough, or that's interesting and needs more exploration. Weboy, Blogs ARE editors editing. There just happen to be more blue pencils than ever before. Really, our job is to work on the quality of their underlying skills. The tough task is to convince them they'd be better for it, and so would we. Discuss (1 response) Posted by Stephen Waters on 2/16/05; 7:40:17 AM from the Comments Dept. Permanent link: #

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