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Hi Teena and all, In response for opinions on personal postings: I wouldn't see this as a kind of personal admonishment or anything against Rosan. I think she has much better responses than a lot of people. In fact, I was expecting to read her diary which she had planned to write to the list. But I felt somewhat held back to post and respond to her postings. Like you, I was absent, so I am largely clueless as to what was going on. I would like to read different aspects and thoughts from people who had attended the conference. Honestly, when I read Rosan's post, I had the impression she had some criticisms to make. Maybe I have read her wrongly. But in any stance as a reader, I get the feeling that the post's tone was not too pleasant. It was hard to respond to her post because of that. Whereas Dori's one was more welcoming. Note that I have neither seen or spoken to any of them. But from the way they each write on-line, my feeling is I would have a much better acquaintance with Dori than with Rosan. I would have expected otherwise.Its a matter of how accommodating the post is. I have posted thoughts on different lists and sometimes I don't get any/good response. Its the same with this list. I had recently posted a query about PhDs and lectureship on another list, I had zero response. I am thinking why. I reckon that I have committed the old flaw of asking too much in a single email. I can't be too definitely sure of that, but sometimes what you write from your mind may not be the same as how other people perceive it. However, I learn from each post I make to the lists of what went wrong and what went right. But I thought patience, guts and positiveness is the only way to go, so I just keep asking and learning. I guess you need to be really very open to different outcomes. Just like everyone has their own character, there are times people want to respond as well as there are moments people just want to keep silent. After saying all this, I face the predicament of either receiving replies or facing a blank wall with people thinking my post is insignificant. Its the same with every post made by anyone. straight talk here with kind regards, Karen Fu At 07:38 AM 12/11/2006, teena clerke wrote: >My concern here is that the list response to Rosan's and subsequent >posts seems to be one either of silence and that I may be alone in >my discomfort about the inferences presented in David's post, or >that you all feel that one posting is not helpful for some reason - >either way, I think this is really a personal response. Again, my >intention is to be helpful, and as I have not met any of you, nor am >really aware of your standing in the design community apart from >that which I read here, I feel like one of our colleagues has now >been publicly admonished for posting a personal and truthful (as one >of many truths) account of an experience, while another has been >publicly congratulated, and yet another was accepted without >comment. From my perspective, this seems to be an unbalanced >response, and in light of some of the historical list 'debates' >about personal experiments with avatars and provocation, I think one >that is a bit judgmental. > >I would like to open this discussion up to others on the list, to >elicit their feelings about this sequence of events and to find some >way of 'unsilencing' this community's responses to personal postings. >