Even though doctors may receive more or less similar medical education, they each have their own opinions and assessment about things. They can have contrasting approaches about how to diagnose and treat certain afflictions or diseases but we learn to value each of their perspectives because we like to be informed and value a second opinion regardless of whether the information given is the same from different parties. I feel the same about blog postings.
I subscribe to quite a few Mac related/technology blogs and during the week that Atebits released their much anticipated desktop version of Tweetie, I felt that I knew a considerable amount about the software without having actually used it yet.
I attributed that knowledge to the overload of posts, links and Tweets everyone was sharing about the software all week. When I didn’t see the word Tweetie in a headline, I knew that somebody had not done their job of mentioning it again for that day, so when I came across Justin’s post on the software, I chuckled:
I know, just what you need, another take on Atebits’ latest creation, Tweetie for Mac (which was released earlier this week), but bear with me, because my opinion matters!
Not to take anything away from Tweetie because I’ve become an avid user of it, I found Justin’s opening line amusing because despite having heard so much about Tweetie already, it wasn’t an inconvenience reading his perspective. I valued his and everyone’s opinion, their influence, their unique ways of responding to the world, which is essentially interwoven with the person’s character and principles.
So even though most of the blogs I subscribe to relate along the same line of information, it’s the person behind the keyboard that substantiates the info. I have this theory that if Grubers mentioned it, then everyone is already heard it but that shouldn’t dissuade anyone from contributing their two senses on a topic that has been discussed already because different opinions are valued.
April 30, 2009 |
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