<%3Fxml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"%3F> http://blog.gbrettmiller.com/tools-do-not-a-master-or-failure-make/ ...no straight lines... Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:06:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://blog.gbrettmiller.com/tools-do-not-a-master-or-failure-make/comment-page-1/#comment-490 Theoria cum Praxi » The blogs of Benjamin Franklin Thu, 07 Jan 2010 14:42:13 +0000 http://blog.gbrettmiller.com/?p=523#comment-490 [...] At the time, I didn’t agree with McCormick’s assessment. Today, I disagree even more and would love the opportunity to ask him the question again. I think Franklin would have embraced blogging – all social media for that matter. I think that McCormick’s response came, at least partially, from an ignorance on his part of what blogs and other social media tools are and what they are capable of. I have the feeling he also confused the sometimes dismal quality of personal blogs, etc and the potential of the tools themselves. (Remember, having good tools do not the master make.) [...] [...] At the time, I didn’t agree with McCormick’s assessment. Today, I disagree even more and would love the opportunity to ask him the question again. I think Franklin would have embraced blogging – all social media for that matter. I think that McCormick’s response came, at least partially, from an ignorance on his part of what blogs and other social media tools are and what they are capable of. I have the feeling he also confused the sometimes dismal quality of personal blogs, etc and the potential of the tools themselves. (Remember, having good tools do not the master make.) [...]

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