Comments on: Common Sense = “Big Thinker”

By: Thomas B. Albright

Thomas B. Albright — Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:33:29 +0000

Couldn't find the reference, but common sense thinking should be taught and applied to books for the three levels of education. The politicians in government and education are not getting the job done.

By: plasticbag.org

plasticbag.org — Wed, 28 May 2003 20:14:18 +0000

On parallels with academic citation networks... As ever when I've written something long and vaguely serious, I can't think of anything to talk about for days afterwards. I have to say that I've been generally pretty delighted to the reaction Discussion and Citation in the Blogosphere

By: Erik J. Barzeski

Erik J. Barzeski — Wed, 28 May 2003 11:42:40 +0000

Fair enough response, Tom. I can agree with that.

By: 2lmc spool

2lmc spool — Wed, 28 May 2003 09:21:46 +0000

2003/05/28 10:13 Common sense eq big thinker

By: Tom Coates

Tom Coates — Wed, 28 May 2003 08:24:34 +0000

Hmm. Well to be honest, I kind of feel the same way. I pretty much thought it was self-explanatory too, but evidently a lot of other people didn't, which is why I had to write it down! I think the point might be not that we should always say things that are cutting edge and brilliant, but also that we should annotate some of the stuff that seems obvious to us, but doesn't seem obvious to other people. In that piece I tried to be as methodical as I could be in explaining it to people who haven't yet made the connection (and I think you can see that there are still some people who haven't made the connection, because some of the comments about the article (both positive and negative) still seem to have missed the point a bit... Thanks for your comments though...