The Assemblagist

First, let me make a Michael Arring­ton com­ment, a TechCrunch bitch­slap. I occa­sion­ally read Arrington’s scrib­bles and this time, he is just wrong. Pub­lish­ing hacked mate­r­ial is uneth­i­cal and could be ille­gal. But it’s also a bla­tant grasp for #s. It’s cheesy. This Twit­ter inci­dent con­firms my jour­nal­ist bias. We need real, trained jour­nal­ists, the kind who work for news­pa­pers and mag­a­zines. Not infor­ma­tion kit­ties who pass on gos­sip, who are untrained and have a hack men­tal­ity. That will bite me in the ass but I don’t care. To ratio­nal­ize post­ing infor­ma­tion because a site is not com­pletely secure is like say­ing “It was okay to take my neighbor’s DVD player, he left his front door unlocked.” Life doesn’t work that way, Arring­ton. Enough said. F*%k any free speech argu­ment for this one. Ille­gally obtained infor­ma­tion is just that.

And yes, I have a real col­lege degree from a bricks and mor­tar uni­ver­sity… and two years of grad­u­ate study.

Sec­ondly, well…

I was going to write a post about the cre­ative process but now I’m pissed off and need to relax for a moment before resuming.

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