An invitation to the Reasonable Nuts
posted by CS | 5:00 PM 
Hey guys - remember when we set this thing up as something of a group blog? Instead of that, we almost purely have written single post entries and the "we" has become something akin to 90% me, 8% Protagonist, and 2% others. I'm not even sure Spoomonger is alive, it's been so long since I've seen a post from him. ;-)
I was reading a little of the Becker-Posner blog today and it occurred to me this is what I thought we were going to try to do. They take a subject and each writes on it in a seperate post. Becker is a conservative economist (who studied under Milton Friedman), while Posner is a less-conservative, but still not typically liberal federal judge. The format of the title is "Issue: Author".
I think what we were trying initially to do was doomed to failure largely because of the format. One would post and then others would comment. Thus, only the original author's words ever appeared on the main page. Were we to follow the B-P blog's format, this would be fixed.
So, what do you say? I know that Queen Spoo and Protagonist are quite capable of offering up meaty morsels of public discussion. Daniel is more of a cut-n-paster and audioblogger, but he is 1, a busy man and 2, suffers from a repetitive stress situation with his wrists - so he likely won't be writing a lot. So, how about it Spoomonger? A 4-way debate might be better than a 3-way one. But then, do your and Queen Spoo's views differ enough to add differentiated content?
Correct me if I am misstating your views, but I see Protagonist as a traditional libertarian, Queen Spoo and Spoomonger as traditional conservatives and myself, as a hybrid of the two. That's perhaps oversimplified, but likely correct enough for discussion. Daniel is also fairly traditionally conservative, though his haircut tends to throw one off.
So what do you say?
I was reading a little of the Becker-Posner blog today and it occurred to me this is what I thought we were going to try to do. They take a subject and each writes on it in a seperate post. Becker is a conservative economist (who studied under Milton Friedman), while Posner is a less-conservative, but still not typically liberal federal judge. The format of the title is "Issue: Author".
I think what we were trying initially to do was doomed to failure largely because of the format. One would post and then others would comment. Thus, only the original author's words ever appeared on the main page. Were we to follow the B-P blog's format, this would be fixed.
So, what do you say? I know that Queen Spoo and Protagonist are quite capable of offering up meaty morsels of public discussion. Daniel is more of a cut-n-paster and audioblogger, but he is 1, a busy man and 2, suffers from a repetitive stress situation with his wrists - so he likely won't be writing a lot. So, how about it Spoomonger? A 4-way debate might be better than a 3-way one. But then, do your and Queen Spoo's views differ enough to add differentiated content?
Correct me if I am misstating your views, but I see Protagonist as a traditional libertarian, Queen Spoo and Spoomonger as traditional conservatives and myself, as a hybrid of the two. That's perhaps oversimplified, but likely correct enough for discussion. Daniel is also fairly traditionally conservative, though his haircut tends to throw one off.
So what do you say?
2 Comments:
Actually I have been getting into blogging more over the last couple of months, and the genesis of TheoCon. There are a few liberal Christians that my church that have blogss and instead of just flaming them all the time I thought it would take the offensive and start my own. All this to say I hope toe start posting a bit more to RN whatever the format.
BTW, I will link your TheoCon site in our blogroll. Audioblogging is neat. But I think so much more clearly when I write. I heard it very well said recently that "what is writing, but thinking?" This fits me to a T. If I have enough coffee, I can usually speak with about 90% of the clarity of my writing, but typically it's more like 50%.
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