Comments on: Lessons from Public Speaking http://smidg.in/2007/11/16/lessons-from-public-speaking/ The Smidgin: A Sporadic Blogger Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:39:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jim http://smidg.in/2007/11/16/lessons-from-public-speaking/#comment-3728 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:26:49 +0000 http://smidg.in/2007/11/16/lessons-from-public-speaking/#comment-3728 To clarify, the post did not quote me by name. Your point is still good, though.

That’s the reason I made a point of listing my full name when writing a short reply on the post. That provides me with a level of credibility that the author doesn’t have.

]]> By: tuppence http://smidg.in/2007/11/16/lessons-from-public-speaking/#comment-3729 Sat, 17 Nov 2007 19:52:21 +0000 http://smidg.in/2007/11/16/lessons-from-public-speaking/#comment-3729 The incident also says something about intellectual responsibility. One of the things I don’t like about the forum wall is that people can choose to have no accountability for what they write if they post anonymously. Thus, in a sense your critic didn’t need to worry about misquoting you or confusing your academic critique with your character because, unlike you, they won’t be held personally accountable for what they say. There is an argument that anonymity on the forum wall allows for an otherwise unattainable level of transparency, but to me it looks like social and intellectual cowardice.

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