I’ve had a chance to email back and forth with Mary Jo
Foley
regarding being quoted in
Microsoft-Watch newsletter. She sent
me a copy of last week’s article where she links to Don’s opinion of
InfoPath and directly quotes
Clemens. So my
comment about only quoting the guy with something negative to say was
wrong, and thus I retract it and apologize. There was also some
confusion regarding my opinion of InfoPath as a front-end blogging tool.
I was
commenting
on InfoPath’s suitability (or lack thereof) as a general development
tool, not as a weblog front end. I think that InfoPath would rock as a
front-end blog tool – I’m just frustrated by the current lack of
documentation.
BTW, Scoble had this to say:
Ahh, Harry Pierson is quoted by Mary Jo Foley and asks what I think of
all this. Definitely it’s the new world. I imagine there’ll be a day
when I get quoted about something or another that NEC is doing. It
sure would be nice, though, if journalists always include a link in
their articles back to the source. That way we can always put it back
in context for people who want more information. Main-stream press
folks, though, rarely link to outside resources. Why is that? They
don’t want their readers to leave. It’s yet another reminder, though,
that what you say online is important and may be used against you at
some time in a future. It’s a wacky new world, that’s for sure. Be
careful out there.
[The Scobleizer
Weblog]
I wanted to point out that while “main-stream press folks rarely link”,
the same can’t be said of Mary Jo. The newsletter includes links to all
of the relevant blog entries. They’re using a redirect server so the
links in the newsletter are routed though them, but the user ends up on
the blog entry in question. Also, Microsoft-Watch has an RSS
feed, which I’ve now
subscribed to.
Robert, are you going to add “Let’s be careful out there” to your
manifesto? I’ll hum the theme to Hill Street Blues…