Comments on: Return-to-work freelancer gets unceremoniously flamed in The Reg http://idealgovernment.com/2008/04/return_to_work_freelancer_gets_unceremoniously_flamed_in_the_reg/ What do we want from Internet-age government? Wouldn't it be better if... Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:03:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: William Heath http://idealgovernment.com/2008/04/return_to_work_freelancer_gets_unceremoniously_flamed_in_the_reg/comment-page-1/#comment-2229 William Heath Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:46:34 +0000 http://return_to_work_freelancer_gets_unceremoniously_flamed_in_the_reg#comment-2229 Right - I shall endeavour to establish a clear answer to this question "can Jacqui Smith take the concept of "privacy-enhancing technologies and why they make us more secure" on board. We shall need some help, But if she does, I think we have proven the case that she is smart in this context. The flaming is cool. I do kindof like it when people receive attempts at insight "in a tender and creative spirit, to reach for the meaning deep within it" as the Friends say. After all, even if the point you're trying to make or the way you make it isnt deeply meaningful for one reader, it may be so for others. I guess being mindful of the shoal of Reg pirhanas helps keep writers honest with that "self-disciplining" property that Foucault describes in Bentham's Panopticon. As long as self-disciplining isnt self-censoring. Is there a Jeremy Clarkson tendency to write deliberately provocatively to enfuriate your readers? I dont see myself going down that path. Oops, perhaps I did already. Right – I shall endeavour to establish a clear answer to this question “can Jacqui Smith take the concept of “privacy-enhancing technologies and why they make us more secure” on board. We shall need some help, But if she does, I think we have proven the case that she is smart in this context.

The flaming is cool. I do kindof like it when people receive attempts at insight “in a tender and creative spirit, to reach for the meaning deep within it” as the Friends say. After all, even if the point you’re trying to make or the way you make it isnt deeply meaningful for one reader, it may be so for others.

I guess being mindful of the shoal of Reg pirhanas helps keep writers honest with that “self-disciplining” property that Foucault describes in Bentham’s Panopticon. As long as self-disciplining isnt self-censoring.

Is there a Jeremy Clarkson tendency to write deliberately provocatively to enfuriate your readers? I dont see myself going down that path. Oops, perhaps I did already.

]]> By: John Lettice http://idealgovernment.com/2008/04/return_to_work_freelancer_gets_unceremoniously_flamed_in_the_reg/comment-page-1/#comment-2228 John Lettice Sat, 12 Apr 2008 13:35:11 +0000 http://return_to_work_freelancer_gets_unceremoniously_flamed_in_the_reg#comment-2228 Well, it was a fairly mild flame attack by Reg standards. And many of them did - as Reg commenters are wont to do - spot the Smith red rag and go tearing off on a tangent, rather than deal with the main event. I have to tell you I raised an eyebrow at the concept of a smart Smith myself. How do you explain her bizarre Vicky Pollard attack on the Today programme a few months back, then? (-: Well, it was a fairly mild flame attack by Reg standards. And many of them did – as Reg commenters are wont to do – spot the Smith red rag and go tearing off on a tangent, rather than deal with the main event.

I have to tell you I raised an eyebrow at the concept of a smart Smith myself. How do you explain her bizarre Vicky Pollard attack on the Today programme a few months back, then? (-:

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