Mathowie on The Morning News

December 4, 2001 3:07 PM

The Morning News is hosting a round table discussion on writing on the web, with mathowie among the contributors. Check it out.
posted by moz to General Weblog-Related at 3:07 PM (12 comments total)

Much as I respect some of the participants, I can't say that produced a very interesting discussion (although I appreciated Dean Allen's remarks re the length of writing on the web and Matt's insistence on the qualitative difference between journalism and blogging); Will Forbis and Michael Goldberg seem particularly bent on self-promotion. Which is no sin, but really, the result is kinda boring.
posted by BT at 3:52 PM on December 4, 2001

Ugh. Above comment -- crabby and nearly contentless -- seems in retrospect to be a textbook example of that which ought to have been previewed and abandoned. Please ignore my shallow response.
posted by BT at 4:50 PM on December 4, 2001

Please note that Mathowie was the only one to quote back the question in bitesize chunks as if he were responding to email.

Cool.
posted by holloway at 5:20 PM on December 4, 2001

Do we need the holy Matt picture in MeTa twice in one day?
posted by eyeballkid at 6:12 PM on December 4, 2001

[MetaGuy hath] class.
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[Matt Haughey]
posted by Opus Dark at 7:32 PM on December 4, 2001

> as if he were responding to email

He was. The conversation took place over email.
posted by megnut at 7:49 PM on December 4, 2001

Do we need the holy Matt picture in MeTa twice in one day?



Twice is never enough.
posted by bradlands at 11:21 PM on December 4, 2001

>> as if he were responding to email

>He was. The conversation took place over email.

Even more cool! Proper use of the medium (thus cool), rendered even more cool by its subtle transposition away from the inbox and into the tight fitting cords and jacket of a rigorous HTML 4.01 Transitional doctype (slinky).

You will not stop our love of matt, no matter how much you try to fight with this despicable weapon known as, reason.


posted by nedrichards at 2:36 AM on December 5, 2001

All hail the godlike floating head!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 2:45 AM on December 5, 2001

Okay.. Oh, you mean the other godlike floating head!

posted by ZachsMind at 7:01 AM on December 5, 2001

One day they'll build cities around metafilters.
posted by holloway at 10:46 AM on December 5, 2001

ok, y'all wanna hear something really weird? i couldn't read the article at all because my employer's 'adult content filtering software' (i work at a boarding school) had blocked the website.

and why, you ask, was a roundtable discussion about online content blocked? (the morning news main site is not blocked, just this article.) well, according to the error message:

Access to the desired Web page is restricted at this time.
Reason:

The Websense category "Sex Education" is restricted.

You requested: http://www.themorningnews.org/roundtable_writing.html

leaving me what exactly constitutes matt's idea of 'writing' on the web. must be pretty graphic stuff, though.
posted by mlang at 11:05 AM on December 5, 2001