Comments on: Something fishy in PC Magazine http://www.mountebank.org/blog/286/something-fishy-in-pc-magazine/ There is nothing so impossible in nature... Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:56:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe http://www.mountebank.org/blog/286/something-fishy-in-pc-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-2525 Joe Tue, 24 May 2005 12:03:19 +0000 http://www.mountebank.org/blog/archives/286#comment-2525 That could well be. It's a pretty widely-quoted passage, and quite typical of Heinlein's "competent man" ethos. It also seems to have a pretty wide attraction, judging by how often it appears on the web. (And I love that synchronicity of stumbling by accident on a quote that's just come to my attention in another context!) That could well be. It’s a pretty widely-quoted passage, and quite typical of Heinlein’s “competent man” ethos. It also seems to have a pretty wide attraction, judging by how often it appears on the web.

(And I love that synchronicity of stumbling by accident on a quote that’s just come to my attention in another context!)

]]> By: GV http://www.mountebank.org/blog/286/something-fishy-in-pc-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-2503 GV Tue, 24 May 2005 05:20:28 +0000 http://www.mountebank.org/blog/archives/286#comment-2503 So, last night I'm reading a Bruce Sterling novel, Zenith Angle, which I had found by chance on a library shelf, published in 2004. (Somehow, Amazon neglected to notify me of this matter.) The exact Heinlein quote is quoted there, sourcing Robert Heinlein, but not the novel. Bet that is where your blogger found it... So, last night I’m reading a Bruce Sterling novel, Zenith Angle, which I had found by chance on a library shelf, published in 2004. (Somehow, Amazon neglected to notify me of this matter.) The exact Heinlein quote is quoted there, sourcing Robert Heinlein, but not the novel. Bet that is where your blogger found it…

]]> By: Joe http://www.mountebank.org/blog/286/something-fishy-in-pc-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-2409 Joe Mon, 16 May 2005 11:14:02 +0000 http://www.mountebank.org/blog/archives/286#comment-2409 Yes, that's interesting indeed. And I think the same point can be made for some (certainly not all) of the other excerpts in that "backspace" piece. Even when trying to ridicule blogging and bloggers, actively working to select examples of pure fluff, there's content that has meaning and value, whoever the author. That's why they're worth reading, rather than ridiculing. Yes, that’s interesting indeed. And I think the same point can be made for some (certainly not all) of the other excerpts in that “backspace” piece. Even when trying to ridicule blogging and bloggers, actively working to select examples of pure fluff, there’s content that has meaning and value, whoever the author. That’s why they’re worth reading, rather than ridiculing.

]]> By: GV http://www.mountebank.org/blog/286/something-fishy-in-pc-magazine/comment-page-1/#comment-2379 GV Mon, 16 May 2005 05:06:50 +0000 http://www.mountebank.org/blog/archives/286#comment-2379 But,notwithstanding the failure of attribution, isn't the more (or, at least, equally) interesting point that what was insightful wisdom from a respected author is treated as pure fluff from a blogger when the serious authorship is lost ?? Was the thought less worthy if we didn't know it came from a serious author?:?: But,notwithstanding the failure of attribution, isn’t the more (or, at least, equally) interesting point that what was insightful wisdom from a respected author is treated as pure fluff from a blogger when the serious authorship is lost ?? Was the thought less worthy if we didn’t know it came from a serious author?:?:

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