joe ferrare's blog

Read this blog post today, and couldn’t agree more.  I’ve been using Groklaw as an example for years, particularly when I was teaching public affairs at the Defense Information School. My point basically was: woe be unto you if this kind of community/site organizes around defeating you. I also made the point that Groklaw was more than a bad time, it was a great resource for SCO, had they used it.  But instead of reading what others were saying and trying to get on the side of right, they bulled ahead toward the cliff.  A good PAO would have followed the site, gone into the boss and laid out the other side’s case.  You’ve got to be prepared to be hated, but you owe it to the boss to do it (at least in the Army).

Of course, this is another benefit of using Linux.  I would never have found or followed Groklaw had I not been a Linux user.

Working on a new site design. Downloaded some new themes and am trying to customize them for my own use. This one (blue mountain) obviously still needs work. I think less blue, a touch of orange. Anyway, I’m going to do a site I’m happy with and start posting more. Reading the internet without sharing is getting old.