Category Archives: Weblog as Power Tool

Mistakes made on the internet do not go away. I discovered this recently when I was doing a search on Google for a particular quote concerning two giants in the field of medicine, Galen and Harvey.

Along with many reliable sources of information, I saw, with some embarrassment, a mangled version of the quote that I had written some months ago.

I had added a comment to a post on Gray Monks weblog and had completely messed up the original quote without realizing it. When I returned to the site recently, I found that I could not add a corrective comment on an archived post.

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Who are they?

“Yesterday’s experts” are those who have risen to the top of their profession by hard work and then, satisfied by the approval of their peers, stopped learning about new things. Yet they continued making judgements about things they obviously didn’t understand.

You do not want to become “yesterday’s expert”, because you can go down in history as a dunderhead of record when you make predictions about upcoming events.

There is a vast collection of erroneous predictions from yesterday’s experts. These predictions are all the more amazing because they were made by people who were known as innovative trailbreakers and highly successful businessmen right up to the point where they revealed that they had become dinosaurs.

What they said.

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Blogging friendships are special relationships, unlike the relationships we form through work or daily social interaction.

In blogging relationships, there is both anonymity and intimacy at the same time. We exchange confidences with other like-minded people and we are not constrained by the normal barriers of gender, age or distance.

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Some bloggers choose to remain anonymous because their views are not shared by employers or local citizens. It should be recognized by all, however, that every post should be written with the understanding that the blogger may have to take responsibility for it at some inopportune time.

Whether your weblog is being used as a personal bully pulpit. or as a means of artistic expression, what you write can come back to haunt you.

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