Comments on: Blog, Essay, or Bloviation? http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/ Tradition . . . Innovation Thu, 09 Sep 2010 22:16:45 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: longt http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-13 longt Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:54:53 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-13 Jonny Goldstein, how about cerebration and ovulation? Charles Ford, thanks for the compliment. Jonny Goldstein, how about cerebration and ovulation?

Charles Ford, thanks for the compliment.

]]> By: Charles Ford http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-11 Charles Ford Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:15:25 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-11 Tom: I love your well-chosen photos: they make you look like CNN's Anderson Cooper, if he had lived in Norfolk for a generation and had been a little over ten years older than he is now. C. Ford Tom:

I love your well-chosen photos: they make you look like CNN’s Anderson Cooper, if he had lived in Norfolk for a generation and had been a little over ten years older than he is now.

C. Ford

]]> By: jonny goldstein http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-7 jonny goldstein Sat, 29 Dec 2007 05:25:56 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-7 I am pro bloviation. The word is just so delicious. Let's have a celeberation; an ovation to bloviation. I am pro bloviation. The word is just so delicious. Let’s have a celeberation; an ovation to bloviation.

]]> By: longt http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-6 longt Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:50:59 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-6 Thanks, Peter, for those observations. Actually, CB radio required only one piece of relatively inexpensive equipment, which was fairly portable (by 1970s standards) so it could be used on the road, at work or in the home. It was a form of radio communication for those who couldn't or wouldn't learn the complexities required for "ham" radio licensing (e.g. Morse code). It was also unpretentious, absorbing a working-class ethos (the communication device of choice for truck drivers). Like IMing and texting, it also had its own shorthand code ("ten-four good buddy"). I'd like to take credit for the design of this site, but that is the product of Verge New Media. Thanks, Peter, for those observations. Actually, CB radio required only one piece of relatively inexpensive equipment, which was fairly portable (by 1970s standards) so it could be used on the road, at work or in the home. It was a form of radio communication for those who couldn’t or wouldn’t learn the complexities required for “ham” radio licensing (e.g. Morse code). It was also unpretentious, absorbing a working-class ethos (the communication device of choice for truck drivers). Like IMing and texting, it also had its own shorthand code (”ten-four good buddy”).

I’d like to take credit for the design of this site, but that is the product of Verge New Media.

]]> By: peter http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-5 peter Fri, 28 Dec 2007 00:27:44 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-5 Thomas, Good question! I'd like to point out one (important) difference I see between CB radio and blogging: While CB radio was accessible only _in theory_ to anybody, but needed quite a bit of very specialized equipment, blogging is really accessible to a much larger chunk of the population. (That is, in industrialized countries.) Computers are much more widespread than CB radios because they are so much less specialized and basically most households need one anyway. A higher number of people with access to the table equals a richer debate. By the way, nice design! Cheers, Peter Thomas,

Good question! I’d like to point out one (important) difference I see between CB radio and blogging: While CB radio was accessible only _in theory_ to anybody, but needed quite a bit of very specialized equipment, blogging is really accessible to a much larger chunk of the population. (That is, in industrialized countries.) Computers are much more widespread than CB radios because they are so much less specialized and basically most households need one anyway. A higher number of people with access to the table equals a richer debate.

By the way, nice design!

Cheers,
Peter

]]> By: kgill http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-4 kgill Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:13:02 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-4 Interesting thoughts and a nice, clean design = a good start! Interesting thoughts and a nice, clean design = a good start!

]]> By: Susanne http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-3 Susanne Thu, 27 Dec 2007 19:51:14 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-3 A blog is what you make it to. A new Kierkegaard maybe, we could discuss the basics of lifehood if you like ;-) To a prosperious 2008! A blog is what you make it to.

A new Kierkegaard maybe, we could discuss the basics of lifehood if you like ;-)

To a prosperious 2008!

]]> By: Marti http://thelongview.tv/2007/12/23/hello-world/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Marti Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:09:35 +0000 http://thelongview.tv/?p=1#comment-2 Hello! Nice to meet you! Best wishes to you in 2008! Hello! Nice to meet you! Best wishes to you in 2008!

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