Crticism promotes progress
I was reading Randy's latest post on Virginia Postresl's peice and I began to look over my notes from her writing and I came across her four characteristics of Dynamist Rules and number four was: "The rules protect or ensure criticism, competition, and feedback." Criticism is essential to promote progess and to acheive the best possible result. This blog promotes that rule. The set up of this blog and all other blogs enables the sharing of proposed ideas and beliefs with the guarantee that others will critique and offer feedback on what was written. This in turn provides the writer or poster with incentives to write better blogs and think of new ideas and tangents that others have yet to think about to have that one true original blog posting. Without that guarantee of crticism and feedback there would be no incentive to write anything worth while that inspired any kind of thought or discussion.
posted by Anonymous @ 4:22 PM
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I hope you don't mind if I engage in a little criticism of what you said here. *grin*
In a public forum like this with a (hopefully) wide variety of viewpoints you get helpful feedback. Unfortunately, most people who read weblogs focus on the ones where they share the writer's opinion, and ignore the rest; as a result, you get a feedback loop. Readers comment on a weblog and say that they like what they read, and the writer keeps writing the same one-sided opinions. They rarely get criticism, and truly intelligent criticism is almost unheard of. On the Sierra Club website, for instance, you'll never read a suggestion in favor of drilling for oil in ANWR.
There are exceptions to this, of course, and these are usually the weblogs most worth reading. I would compare these blogs to widely syndicated newspaper columns.
Newspaper columns are generally more widely read than weblogs, just because there are fewer of them and they are more convenient in relation to each other. So an opinion page will often have several letters for and against a particularly volatile column, provoking thought among a wide number of readers.
In most weblogs and online forums, unfortunately, you just don't get that much criticism.
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