Note my follow-up comment
…Not even Matthew Arnold. Jessamyn, returning from Australia, demurs from participating in the PLA blog event, arguing that “Stephen [sic] has the project well-covered and there was talk of a ‘be nice’ agreement that wasn’t my style.” That misrepresents the discussion. We–actually, I–have been encouraging the PLA Midwinter bloggers to discuss blogging guidelines so that this first attempt at blogging doesn’t frighten the horses and other divisions (including the woefully backward LITA, which should be leading this effort) soon follow suit.
Nobody’s writing anything in blood, nobody’s saying we have to be nice. I’m really talking about simple stuff any reasonable blogger does (albeit sometimes with a reminder): fact-checking, revealing sources and conflicts of interest, avoiding ready-fire-aim.
It’s o.k. to do your own thing, but be real, Jessamyn: you like to do your own thing anyway–it’s who you are. Nothing wrong with that! Some of us are just more “ant colony” than others. And excuse me while I go move a few crumbs across the room…
Posted on this day, other years:
- OCLC's policy: Train, stop, cried the constable on the rails - 2008
- You Know the Moon is in the Seventh House... - 2005
- Cites and Insights: Take That, Ashcroft - 2003
I’m not sure what the problem is here. Steven asked me via IM to participate. I asked if I could write whatever I wanted. He said there would be some sort of paper to sign which he called a “be nice” clause and I said “good luck on your project, but it sounds like it’s not for me.” We then swapped some suggestions about how to possibly build an RSS aggregator for PLA bloggers and non-PLA bloggers [i.e. anyone at ALA] content to be aggregated and it was all really positive. Possibly what Steven said wasn’t what you and he had discussed, but what he said to me was very straightforward and not at all equivocal: there would be something to sign and part of the thing-to-be-signed would include a “be nice” clause. I didn’t misrepresent any discussion I was involved in. If there has been bloggish discussion about this, I haven’t even read it yet. I just wanted to explain why I wouldn’t be participating, in case people were curious. I hope it goes well and I’ll certainly promote it.
It sounds as if Steven understood this conversation to be conversational and you understood it to be on the record. This will be something I address in later posts on the subject of ethics and blogging.
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