A five minute argument or the full week? April 26, 2006
Posted by Andy Roberts in : General , trackbackCaterina Fake is apparently bored stiff these days, having sold Flickr, and being a good sport fancies having an argument with somebody, suggesting these rules of engagement:
The rules are these:
1. Suggest something in the comments that you’d like to argue about
2. Present your arguing credentials
3. Nothing too political, religious or inflammatory please
4. After a fair number of proposed arguments have been posted, I’ll choose one that I’d enjoy arguing
5. The argument will consist of 3 exchanges one from each of us, via email, 6 emails total, and to prevent them from getting out of control, probably 250-500 words each
6. How long this takes is up to us. A week?
7. We will publish our argument on our respective blogs, when done.
8. People should feel free to take up other people on their offers to argue too, and, I hope, publish their arguments as well.
What a great idea. It’s perhaps unfortunate timing for me, since I’m meant to be arguing amongst friends about research methodologies right now. Or could that also be contained within such framework?
I love the idea of presenting “arguing credentials” although I’ve no idea how to do it, but rule three is just a terrible wet blanket that disqualifies almost any topic I can think of!
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