Comments on: Meritocracy of Ideas OR the Persona Quotient? http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/ paglia's thoughts: "one to negative one" and some noise in between Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Lou Paglia http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/comment-page-1/#comment-165 Lou Paglia Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:19:02 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/#comment-165 Guess the parallelism with your views is that you do in fact, on occasion, use the Persona Quotient and not necessarily always the meritocracy of the ideas. In fact, you build an additional view that you often will read or click to someones blog (i.e. idea) when you believe that they have no merit. Guess the parallelism with your views is that you do in fact, on occasion, use the Persona Quotient and not necessarily always the meritocracy of the ideas. In fact, you build an additional view that you often will read or click to someones blog (i.e. idea) when you believe that they have no merit.

]]> By: Lou Paglia http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/comment-page-1/#comment-796 Lou Paglia Sun, 26 Aug 2007 15:19:00 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/#comment-796 Guess the parallelism with your views is that you do in fact, on occasion, use the Persona Quotient and not necessarily always the meritocracy of the ideas. In fact, you build an additional view that you often will read or click to someones blog (i.e. idea) when you believe that they have no merit. Guess the parallelism with your views is that you do in fact, on occasion, use the Persona Quotient and not necessarily always the meritocracy of the ideas. In fact, you build an additional view that you often will read or click to someones blog (i.e. idea) when you believe that they have no merit.

]]> By: Stephen Smoliar http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/comment-page-1/#comment-164 Stephen Smoliar Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:02:42 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/#comment-164 Lou, I certainly believe in the Meritocracy of Ideas; but I have no idea if I am a representative sample! There are two predominant ways I discover blog posts: - Through a Google search, which is usually highly specific. If the post turns out to be interesting as well as useful for my search, I then consider subscribing to it. (I think this is how my own blog was "discovered" by the Communications Department for the San Francisco Symphony, by the way; and that was enough to get me free tickets when they instituted a "Bloggers' Night" earlier in the summer!) - Through a pointer from another blog to which I have subscribed, usually because it provides a position that either supports or opposed a point the blogger is making. Note that neither of these has anything to do with a Persona Quotient. If I use the PQ at all, it is almost always negatively! Thus, to give an example close to your home, I tend to be skeptical about the musings of "Silicon Valley heros," so to speak, probably because I have already been (overly?) saturated with those musings by listening to them in panel discussions! The people I most WANT to read on the basis of personal reputation (on just about any topic) are writers I discovered through THE NEW YORK REVIEW; and they don't blog! Lou, I certainly believe in the Meritocracy of Ideas; but I have no idea if I am a representative sample! There are two predominant ways I discover blog posts:

- Through a Google search, which is usually highly specific. If the post turns out to be interesting as well as useful for my search, I then consider subscribing to it. (I think this is how my own blog was “discovered” by the Communications Department for the San Francisco Symphony, by the way; and that was enough to get me free tickets when they instituted a “Bloggers’ Night” earlier in the summer!)
- Through a pointer from another blog to which I have subscribed, usually because it provides a position that either supports or opposed a point the blogger is making.

Note that neither of these has anything to do with a Persona Quotient. If I use the PQ at all, it is almost always negatively! Thus, to give an example close to your home, I tend to be skeptical about the musings of “Silicon Valley heros,” so to speak, probably because I have already been (overly?) saturated with those musings by listening to them in panel discussions! The people I most WANT to read on the basis of personal reputation (on just about any topic) are writers I discovered through THE NEW YORK REVIEW; and they don’t blog!

]]> By: Stephen Smoliar http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/comment-page-1/#comment-797 Stephen Smoliar Sat, 25 Aug 2007 16:02:00 +0000 http://www.loupaglia.com/correlate/2007/08/24/meritocracy-of-ideas-or-the-persona-quotient/#comment-797 Lou, I certainly believe in the Meritocracy of Ideas; but I have no idea if I am a representative sample! There are two predominant ways I discover blog posts: - Through a Google search, which is usually highly specific. If the post turns out to be interesting as well as useful for my search, I then consider subscribing to it. (I think this is how my own blog was "discovered" by the Communications Department for the San Francisco Symphony, by the way; and that was enough to get me free tickets when they instituted a "Bloggers' Night" earlier in the summer!) - Through a pointer from another blog to which I have subscribed, usually because it provides a position that either supports or opposed a point the blogger is making. Note that neither of these has anything to do with a Persona Quotient. If I use the PQ at all, it is almost always negatively! Thus, to give an example close to your home, I tend to be skeptical about the musings of "Silicon Valley heros," so to speak, probably because I have already been (overly?) saturated with those musings by listening to them in panel discussions! The people I most WANT to read on the basis of personal reputation (on just about any topic) are writers I discovered through THE NEW YORK REVIEW; and they don't blog! Lou, I certainly believe in the Meritocracy of Ideas; but I have no idea if I am a representative sample! There are two predominant ways I discover blog posts:

- Through a Google search, which is usually highly specific. If the post turns out to be interesting as well as useful for my search, I then consider subscribing to it. (I think this is how my own blog was “discovered” by the Communications Department for the San Francisco Symphony, by the way; and that was enough to get me free tickets when they instituted a “Bloggers’ Night” earlier in the summer!)
- Through a pointer from another blog to which I have subscribed, usually because it provides a position that either supports or opposed a point the blogger is making.

Note that neither of these has anything to do with a Persona Quotient. If I use the PQ at all, it is almost always negatively! Thus, to give an example close to your home, I tend to be skeptical about the musings of “Silicon Valley heros,” so to speak, probably because I have already been (overly?) saturated with those musings by listening to them in panel discussions! The people I most WANT to read on the basis of personal reputation (on just about any topic) are writers I discovered through THE NEW YORK REVIEW; and they don’t blog!

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