I recently attended a research talk by one of our good friends from orgtheory.net. I was introducing the speaker and therefore got close enough to the powerpoint to read the fine print on the opening slide. (Apologies for the two-piece picture, but the cell phone camera has its limitations). In case you can’t make it out, it says “Warning: You may only blog about this talk if you are going to say nice things about it.”* Since I wasn’t aware of any bloggers in the audience other than me and one other scatterbrain, I had to conclude that the speaker was referring to us and was afraid of what we might say about his talk on scatterplot!
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* To fulfill the implicitly agreed-upon contract implied by this warning, I will say that the talk was excellent, even outstanding, as we have come to expect from those org heads.
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I’m not aware of us ever trashing a talk! Or even a person! Now I’m worried that my comments about Wilson were read as a nasty critique. I actually really liked the talk.
Repeat after me, “It’s not always about you, Shamus…”
(Shamus: I think this is making reference to the discussion on orgtheory a few months ago about blogging colloquia. Which wasn’t itself spurred by a critique that was in any sense nasty.)
Have no fear, Shamus. Jeremy’s right (as were you, in your mantra). Some type of blogging disclaimer has been added to Omar’s title pages since last fall, even for talks where there aren’t scatterbrains present. :)
That’s hilarious. Applause for Omar.
Brilliant.
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