From: royybatty@hotmail.com   
      
   On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 17:39:51 -0700, Bill Palmer wrote:   
      
   >> this is all gibson says in his final blog : Perhaps I'll be back, one   
   >> day, somewhere on the far side of whatever it is I'm about to start   
   >> writing.   
   >   
   > FINAL blog?   Was it a genuine blog or just   
   > another case of a successful author trying to get   
   > some authentic net credentials while advertising   
   > his latest effort?  I mean no disrespect to Mr.   
   > Gibson, but I have had it with self-promoting   
   > authors whose only actions in the most creative   
   > and non-commercial parts of the net are aimed at   
   > selling books while pretending to be a serious   
   > participant.   
      
   well.. he didn't even start blogging until "Pattern Recognition" had   
   already made it onto the NY Times bestseller list, so chances are he   
   wasn't terribly concerned about pushing sales.   
      
      
   > For instance, we had a case   
   > like that in alt.writing.   A "big name" in   
   > writing made a couple of posts to the m.w. group.   
   > Ostensibly, he was "discussing," but all he   
   > was really doing was publicizing the fact that   
   > he was going to try selling his latest book on   
   > a website.   When readers to the group took   
   > him seriously, he never even bothered to respond   
   > to his follow-up, which he probably didn't even   
   > bother to read.  Plainly, he was doing nothing   
   > but pitching his book and trying to authenticate   
   > his net credentials.  So, when you talk about   
   > Mr. Gibson's final blog, I have to ask, is   
   > that the last installment in a marketing plan,   
   > or was he truly trying to swim in the   
   > thoughtstream?   
      
   WG never posted in the forums IMO because he correctly   
   recognized that his prescense there would only disrupt the normal   
   discussions.  however he clearly read them..  he would often comment on   
   threads from the forum in his blog.   
      
   i somehow doubt that Mr. G was in the least bit concerned with his net   
   creds.. the guys already stated he has none and doesn't feel like earning   
   them.   
      
   the poor bastard.. how does he live with himself?   
      
   >(I would prefer to read a post   
   > of response by Mr. Gibson,   
      
   so would i .. but he knows better.. the "thoughtstream" is a timesink.. a   
   blackhole.   
      
   contrary to what u may think all we do here is toss wurdz into the   
   void.   
      
   ..   
   alias   
      
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