Thinking Aloud
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7. Re: Re: Who Knows That You Blog
The question, “Who knows that you blog”?, posed most recently on the Forking Mad+ blog and responded to by others, popped up several times on my micro.blog and a few other places, prompting me to reflect on it. Writing online as I have since 2007, my interest in publicising my blog has waxed and waned… Continue reading
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Why I Write.. Revisited
Photo by Nick Morrison on Unsplash — As is the wont of everyone who writes – online or otherwise – there comes a time when the Why I Write question must be faced head on. I am as guilty as the next person in trying my hand at this most indulgent of navel gazing activities, previously trying my hand… Continue reading
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On Data and the Death of Expertise
Previously published on Substack in December 2021 — It seems to me that one of the defining trends of the past few years has been the death of expertise, occasioned by a deep distrust of experts and what they have come to represent, the entrenched gatekeepers (of knowledge in this case). Like all other such… Continue reading