If Mark set up a site that tracked the changes in my weblog, it’d be pretty boring. I say this without intending to jab at Shelley or Dave, or to applaud Mark. I read all their blogs, and benefit from them.
It’s a different way of blogging. I do change posts when I feel it needed, though I try to keep that to a minimum. I don’t see Mark’s cataloguing Dave’s changes as a moral issue; after all, Dave published all those versions of his blog in the first place (if Mark were sneaking onto his site and siphoning off pre-release drafts, that’d be a different story). I can understand Dave feeling an uncomfortable spotlight — but Dave surely recognizes, by now, that his choice to blog from the hip will engender particular responses from people whom he addresses. I’m not claiming that Dave shouldn’t blog spontaneously and edit afterward. It’his blog; he can do with it what he wants. It does seem odd that if he prefers to edit online, in public, rather than offline, he objects to somebody’s noticing.
I haven’t said anything about intent; I don’t have an intent-o-meter, so I’m keeping out of that one.
Neither Mark nor Dave cares what I think about this brawl, so I won’t waste what little wisdom I have in trying to think up a way out. It’s a shame, though.
Posted by AKMA at July 12, 2003 03:39 PM | TrackBack