Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Warning: This Post Has Not Been Edited
Here endeth a couple of weeks' radio silence, caused mainly by a prolonged stint in Toulouse (more of that later) but also a losing battle (for access to MY computer) with three pre-pubescent boys addicted to GTA Vice City. What a dreadful parent I am.
Aaanyway.....
Just heard a piece on Today about "this thing called blogging". Radio 4 - topical as ever. It came on at about 8:15am, so you could click on their "listen again" link for 8:10am, although I warn you it only lasted a few minutes.
They interviewed Corey Doctorow, who explained what a blog was, and what he used his for. Edward Sturton was either playing dumb for effect, or was actually clueless as to what a blog is - which surprised me. Then, for balance, they brought in someone (whose name I didn't catch) who was anti-blog. She said that the problem with blogs is that they're not professionally edited, so you don't know whether the source is reliable. Well - duh! Why the hell does she think people write them? There's absolutely no way the crap I write would get past a professional editor.
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Forget the sentimental notion that foreign policy is a struggle between virtue and vice, with virtue bound to win.
Forget the utopian notion that a brave new world without power politics will follow the unconditional surrender of wicked nations.
Forget the crusading notion that any nation, however virtuous and powerful, can have the mission to make the world in its own image.
Remember that diplomacy without power is feeble, and power without diplomacy is destructive and blind.
Remember that no nation's power is without limits, and hence that its policies must respect the power and interests of others.
Hans Morgenthau
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts
Bertrand Russell
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one
Albert Einstein
When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative
Martin Luther King Jr.
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man
Bertrand Russell
I think it would be a good idea
Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun
Pablo Picasso
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others
Groucho Marx
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it
Mahatma Gandhi
Always make new mistakes
Esther Dyson
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