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I would love to stop quoting so much from this post, however I just can’t say it any better.This is one instance where my analysis would only muddy the clarity of the emotion.

Quoted from News Posts versus Thought Posts:

We can only drink so much from the firehose of information before it turns us into information-downloading robots. We need analysts to opinionate. We need real people to emote, take sides. Blog posts that merely deliver facts, news, tips, or information bore me.

Wow. Revolutionary and very Cluetrain. Obviously we all share some bit of expertise, mine happens to be analyzing certain market trends in technical communication, along with other varied projects I’m working on in the Disruptive Technology vein.

I’m not saying I don’t want tech news. Sure, but I saw about 6 separate posts announcing Google launched a presentation tool, and another half a dozen explaining that Adobe launched its technical communication suite. I prefer to read opinion. For example, Ann Gentle, who is a tech savvy writer/blogger, begins with the news, but then adds her own real thoughts about it.

Throwing out opinions can be dangerous. I’m always restraining myself. What if I make an opinion that offends, or that turns out to be wrong, or that makes me sound uninformed? And why throw out opinions without more research, evidence, and thought? It’s much easier to just deliver the news.

… We are drowning in news. We need more thought.

I can’t say it any better. I did post in the comments section, however you should visit Tom’s site and read the entire post.

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I’m just so excited about this. We have put up 80% of the first floor as of Saturday night. It’s a race against weather, so we’ll be putting four hard days in this week starting on Thursday.

For my normal readers: don’t worry, this is a short segment I will return to my analysis of the Technical Communication space shortly. I’ll be posting up a help file regarding the inside story for this job later this year.

From Thursday you can see the bare concrete. We did about four hours work on the lumber connecting to the concrete Thursday afternoon…

After eight hours on Friday things looked like this:

And this…

At this point the walls are about 40% up on the bottom section.We finished up another 40% on Friday, and the walls are plumb and looking set. We have one small corner to finish – about ten feet on the last two walls and then we start on the second story.