Sufficiently legal would also be either:

a) a great saying on a t-shirt
b) a great name for a rock and roll band
t2ed | Homepage | 08.07.06 - 7:57 am | #

Thanks for the thoughtful write-up, Belle. Just one correction: I graduated in Ohio, not Oregon.
- Ian
Ian Best | Homepage | 08.07.06 - 11:44 am | #

Corrected!

I apologize for the error, Ian.

t2ed: if it were a t-shirt, I imagine it would be worn by the 14-16 year old Abercrombie "jailbait" girl crowd, and that disturbs me. But if you see such shirts around in a few months, email me, and I'll protest their offensiveness _and_ lack of originality for stealing my idea.

Thanks to you both for stopping by!
Belle Lettre | Homepage | 08.07.06 - 11:55 am | #

Hello Belle....I don't want to be included in your complaints about the inflated rhetoric from both sides. Because I try to keep the categorical statements and breathless accusations in check. I do like to know if I slip up, of course, so if you had something specific in mind, as against a general insinuation...

Here's an example of something I posted a few weeks ago:

Dan Gillmor’s famous insight, “readers know more than I do,” makes great intuitive sense. But making sense is not enough. In fact it’s not clear yet how we can take ideas and developments like… distributed knowledge, social networks, collaborative editing, the wisdom of crowds, citizen journalism, pro-am production, decentralized newsgathering, we media… and turn them into actual investigations, published reports that draw attention because they reveal what was previously unknown— you know, news.