Self-delusion makes me giggle. You too?

But, even if you were angry, would that justify minimizing your concerns? Or anyones, for that matter? MLK questioned the status quo, but was dismissed as “uppity”, “an angry black man”, etc… but, of course, even anger can be rational.

It is interesting (but maybe not too surprising in hindsight) to see how ethically and intellectually challenged some people on this board apparently are. So much for open dialogue.

I don’t think it’s worth the anger I have been seeing from other users.

I just wish I was considered… and that I didn’t have a blog to “show” that, or a photo stream, even though I use Twitter quite a bit and would have been good for critique and general commenting and photos.

Wouldn’t say I’m angry. Just disappointed.

Like I have said before, I think it’s a definite step forward for all of us in terms of marketing and being connected to these types of things. A definite good thing.

Adam says “I don’t know Kathleen, are you angry?”
Hey! How come nobody asked me if I was “angry”, before just assuming it. I could have told you, it’s not anger: it’s contempt.

“Radical”? Who said that? Not me…

Adam goes on: “… when what happened is that they just don’t really know Mr. Male and didn’t bother asking because they knew they wouldn’t go if they were invited.”

Hey! That’s almost exactly what I wrote! I’ll quote myself for any of you, like Adam, that had trouble reading it the first time around (please, forgive the pedantry, anyone else):

“I presume that, compiling your list, you went with:

a) the “bloggers” you are personally aware of; and
b) the “bloggers” that were aware of your blog (the origin of the idea, and where the preview was announced), who subsequently contacted you to get on the list.”

How somebody can construe this as some sort of attack on Mr. Male, is beyond me.

Adam also, inexplicably, cannot distinguish the concept “Couldn’t” from the concept “wouldn’t”. He repeatedly makes this error (could it be on purpose?).

Adam, what is “google juice”? Why do you, and perhaps others, think I’m attacking Mr. Male, here? And, why do you keep referring to me as some unnamed “they”?

Again, this is what I ACTUALLY wrote (sorry, again, literate folks, but this remedial instruction appears necessary):

“Did you try google searching for “Edmonton Art Blogs”, as I had suggested on the post where you announced the blogger tour? Or did you reject that suggestion, for some reason?”

That’s not so bad, is it? just an innocent question: Did you do that search, or did you not. That’s all. No accusations of Mack, or his motives. Just a yes or no question, about a non-transparent process that, as we see, saw some “social media” people invited to an exclusive event where others were not. This, apparently, is enough to make folks uncomfortable and suspicious. That’s weird.

If I were commenting and asking these questions under a different name (which, obviously, I could have done) would such questions be greeted with the same knee-jerk hostility? Perhaps… perhaps not. I don’t know.

As I TRIED to make clear before, I have no reason to doubt that Mack tried to do his best to send a list of all the bloggers, tweeters, flickrrerrrs he knew to the AGA, and it was ultimately they, the AGA, that did the inviting.

What was my crime, then? Can anyone point to something I wrote (as opposed to Adam’s fantasizing about what he thinks I wrote) as being out of line? Or, do I just make y’all nervous?

What’s going on here, comrades?

I judge people on being angry on whether they write about how annoyed they are and whether they make sarcastic passive-aggressive comments about how they must be too radical for the AGA when what happened is that they just don’t really know Mr. Male and didn’t bother asking because they knew they wouldn’t go if they were invited.

But if you are angry about it, it would be pretty silly. The AGA invited the media in for a preview—say what you want about the motivation, but if you don’t blog at all then you probably shouldn’t expect an invite to a tour for bloggers. Although just running a blog as student designer wouldn’t have been enough, you would have needed to be a popular read among Mack’s community.

See, what MC is trying to avoid saying, since he’d rather keep arguing about nothing rather than actually talk about something, is that he has run a blog about Edmonton art for quite a long time. He thinks it’s very important to the local community, and in some circles that might even be true, despite his browbeating, often bullying style, and his desperate aesthetic conservatism. But somehow Mack didn’t invite him!

Are you going to say that I was angry I didn’t get to go there, too?

I just find it a little odd that I’m very active, currently am a designer and a student… no invite. I’m guessing it’s because I wasn’t running a blog. Otherwise, I would have fit a nice demographic for them. Just my two cents.

I see what you are saying in terms of that. I mean, none of these Social Media “reporters” have the niche to be talking of it (Mack is an exception as he writes everything about Edmonton, some of the foodies and some of the photo people that specialize in photographing Edmonton). If I ran a blog as a student designer, I would have gotten a call.

I’m one of their key demographics to be going to the place. What I’m saying is that they missed a key demographic that could have been covered by the event.