'Web' vs. Web
Posted: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 8:12 AM by Will Femia
Tom DeLay has a blog. You probably heard about it. The guy was all over the place on TV yesterday explaining to credulous anchors how he'll be using the Web to communicate with America.
But there's the Web and then there's the Web. Which is to say, it's one thing to get a page online quite another thing to have to face the online audience. And so yesterday, most of the hype around DeLay's blog online was from liberal blogs on the subject of holding him to account on his own blog. That was before he deleted everything and started fresh with a finer filter.
But of course, there's the Web and then there's the Web and on the Web it's often the case that what is deleted is really deleted, so the comments removed from DeLay's site (in all their vulgarity) live elsewhere: “A tribute to the 75-minute period where Tom DeLay actually received feedback from America.”
For a summary without my annoying "Web/Web" device, see: The Great Tom DeLay Blog Intrigue
As for me, I like my annoying Web/Web device and I'm going to run it into the ground. Because there's the Web and then there's the Web and you might think that on your site on the Web you can decide what goes on it and block unfriendlies with blunt force filters. But on the Web what you think you control you often don't.
See if you see what I mean.
OK, I didn't see it on my own either, the hint that gave it to me was to look at the comment from TIBT.
No? Try again and see if when you scroll through the comments you notice some with unusual line breaks. Scroll quickly, you'll notice them right away.
That subversive cleverness combined with the fact that I learned the word acrostic is why I love the Internet.
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