AKMA’s Random Thoughts

Listen to What the Man Says

Dave “Connect & Empower” Rogers is his own guy (come to think of it, Dave “Time’s Shadow” Rogers is, too; maybe it’s something to do with the name). He doesn’t follow the herd — no, sirree. He marches to a different drummer, he calls the tune, and when a bunch of other people were getting excited last year about my book on postmodernism, he kept his own counsel. He would read it when he felt like it, if at all, and he wasn’t about to be buffaloed into liking it just because David Weinberger and Tom Matrullo and Joseph Duemer said kind things about it.

But the time came, and he read it, and it turns out that he likes it after all. I’m feeling like Shelley, after those good reviews of Practical RDF: “I can feel satisfaction that it's helping folks and the writing is respected and seen as a quality effort. That's pretty damn important for a writer — worth more than bucks. . . . Well, bucks are nice, too.” Thanks, Dave, for a welcome lift!