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Ah, irony

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Ah, irony
: Maciej Ceglowski points us with glee to “an essay about the importance of linking to others, where all the hyperlinks just point back to himself. You can’t make this stuff up.”

: I want to make clear up here on the front page, and not just in the comments, that I’m not bashing, criticizing, ridiculing, or otherwise piling on Dave Winer with this. I know I’m linking to a piler-on. But I wasn’t piling. As I say in the comments: The irony is cheap, I grant, but I found it funny. It’s a good-natured rib, nothing more.

And I’m saying this out here, to be clear, just because the butane has been turned up high lately and I understand Dave interpretting a rib as a jab. It’s not.

Everybody clear on that?

3 responses to “Ah, irony”

  1. Dave Winer Avatar
    Dave Winer

    Jeff, there are lots of links on Scripting News, which is my weblog. The piece you’re pointing to is an essay, and is clearly labeled as such on the weblog. Take the high road, if you can, there are already lots of low-roaders.

  2. Jeff Jarvis Avatar
    Jeff Jarvis

    Dave:
    No offense intended! Irony can be cheap but still amusing. Take it as the good-natured ribbing it is; that’s all it is.

  3. Dave Winer Avatar
    Dave Winer

    Thanks for clearing that up. I guess it wasn’t bashing, although if you read the site you pointed to, I wouldn’t be so sure. There are a bunch of real nasty people out there Jeff. I’ve sent a fair amount of flow your way, so I was pretty sure you know that I believe in what I was writing about today. One more thought, sarcasm doesn’t work very well in written media like weblogs. It’s hard to infer intonation.