Comments on: LINTerviews are fun

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:01:16 +0000

Thanks Maeve. I saw the other answers and thought I may have been flippant, but I couldn’t think of anything more to write.

Hmmm…if I was Hamlet, I’d probably mean “hoist”, but nowadays I think hoisted is accepted – although via the mutation of language, not correct usage. Next time I’ll use hoist.

By: Maeve

Maeve — Mon, 21 May 2007 07:00:01 +0000

Kathryn, your short answers were more real and entertaining than the long, laboriously thought out replies given by others.

Don’t you mean “hoist (not hoisted) by my own petard”?

By: Kathryn Greenhill

Kathryn Greenhill — Sun, 20 May 2007 14:25:59 +0000

Yep..see. First time you comment on one of my posts, it’s one that I didn’t have to do much thinking or philosophising about. I think you partly right – it’s the raw emotional nature, but also that those “low effort, high comment posts aren’t overthought and made heavy by extra frills.
I’m really learning from Twitter that people can often sensibly post in just 140 characters what they may have put in a five paragraph blog post before. And their personality still manages to shine through in those 140 character.

By: Gary Barber

Gary Barber — Sun, 20 May 2007 13:13:07 +0000

Kathryn – Love the answer to the last question

…When I write a carefully thought out or a totally contentious post, hardly anyone comments….but when I do a throw away post that takes hardly any effort – everyone comments on that one.

This is just so true. You slave over the post, no one appears to care, you do it in a rush, and its hit.. Maybe its the raw emotional nature of the latter, I don’t have the answer either.

Nice idea the question meme