Growing Pains in the Blogging World
So here is the dilemma I’ve faced from the moment I started featuring the designs of a future convention center by architectural students: the local architectural community wants to see the public engaged in discussion and debate over design. Yet some annonymous folks in the online community have trouble with “tact.” I suggested as much in a column and faced a firestorm of criticism, taunts and jeers. And that’s fine, as a journalist, I should be prepared to accept those who don’t like my writing, reporting or observation of events.
But the drawings I’ve featured are by students who are just getting started. Is it fair to subject their class work to the same scrutiny? Just as I was finishing up my Sunday story tonight, my email popped up with suggestions that posters on this blog were being too harsh on the students.
This blog is a whole new world for me – no safety net, and lots of risk. I want to encourage discussions and debates. But at this late hour, I’m shutting off comments on the convention center post. Please know I’m doing this with the best of intentions, and I’m certainly not someone who advocates censorship.
In just the past three months you have made this one of the top five most popular blogs at www.newsok.com. As always, I’m truly appreciative to you the readers, and I draw much of my inspiration from you.
-Steve Lackmeyer
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