My wait is over. Recently Brian joined the HoCo Blogs
community with his blog “Big Ideas,” which, written in the third person,
describes its mission as reporting “on activities before the Board of Education
of Howard County and other civic issues.”
“Anyone who knows Brian understands that Brian believes that
Big Ideas can make the world a better place.”
Wordbones thinks that is nobly stated.
The difference with Brian's blog is that, unlike the majority of the other
members of the HoCo Blogs community, he does not allow comments to his big
idea blog posts. I find this a bit curious for someone who professes to believe
in ideas. Not allowing readers to comment gives the impression that Brian only
believes in big ideas that he puts forward. That seems to be rather small thinking for a big ideas blog.
On the other hand, commenter’s can be a bit irascible at
times, particularly when they disagree with you. Dialogue about ideas isn't always pretty. Still, I believe that nasty comments are the exception rather than the norm and you can always delete any that go too far.
I guess I’m not really all that surprised though. In the
past Brian has demonstrated that he doesn't like his notions to be challenged. For example, after commenting on a To2C post about his business ventures he wrote that he’d be “happy
to come on your show” to talk about it and then backed out the day before the podcast.
Then again, he didn't exactly show up at the HoCo Blogs party
either.
