Comments on: Violent Opposition http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/violent-opposition/ Personal Blog - Chris Saad Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:19:18 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Scott Kveton · I’m for the Open Web http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/violent-opposition/#comment-668 Scott Kveton · I’m for the Open Web Fri, 06 Jun 2008 21:34:00 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=73#comment-668 [...] Portability as a whole as much as I do with its leader, Chris Saad. The lack of clarity of vision, the delusions of grandeur and blatant pandering are so frustrating to someone such as myself that has worked so hard to [...] [...] Portability as a whole as much as I do with its leader, Chris Saad. The lack of clarity of vision, the delusions of grandeur and blatant pandering are so frustrating to someone such as myself that has worked so hard to [...]

]]> By: gregorylent http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/violent-opposition/#comment-622 gregorylent Sat, 24 May 2008 10:44:26 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=73#comment-622 it is not just great leaders who run into that problem. just say something out of line in any group that is based on a world view. you are ostracized very quickly. it is because of egoice self-identity, you are basically attempting to kill people's idea of who they think they are. a low rent planet like this, big problem it is not just great leaders who run into that problem. just say something out of line in any group that is based on a world view. you are ostracized very quickly.

it is because of egoice self-identity, you are basically attempting to kill people’s idea of who they think they are.

a low rent planet like this, big problem

]]> By: Jason Etheridge http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/violent-opposition/#comment-620 Jason Etheridge Sat, 24 May 2008 05:39:38 +0000 http://chrissaad.wordpress.com/?p=73#comment-620 It was an interesting discussion on the Gillmor Gang, though I got the impression that most of the pushback was the problem that the essential (to Steve) feature equivalent to Twitter's track wouldn't be directly possible with your suggested distributed architecture. With no central point through which all the traffic flows, no real-time searching would be possible. Of course, a third-party system could subscribe to everyone's microblogs and get pinged when they're updated, allowing the global stream to be sucked through a central filter... no idea whether that would work at scale. There's the more fundamental problem of how such central filters would find all those microblogs, since there's not necessarily any way of finding them. Regarding the more general initial resistance to new ideas... it's not universal. Doesn't that attitude define conservatives? Also, there's also the point that some genuinely new ideas are just plain bad. :) It was an interesting discussion on the Gillmor Gang, though I got the impression that most of the pushback was the problem that the essential (to Steve) feature equivalent to Twitter’s track wouldn’t be directly possible with your suggested distributed architecture. With no central point through which all the traffic flows, no real-time searching would be possible.

Of course, a third-party system could subscribe to everyone’s microblogs and get pinged when they’re updated, allowing the global stream to be sucked through a central filter… no idea whether that would work at scale. There’s the more fundamental problem of how such central filters would find all those microblogs, since there’s not necessarily any way of finding them.

Regarding the more general initial resistance to new ideas… it’s not universal. Doesn’t that attitude define conservatives? Also, there’s also the point that some genuinely new ideas are just plain bad. :)

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