I’ve actually written a post about it (truth to tell, I wrote three posts and a bunch of Twitter tweets, including one about Sigue Sigue Sputnik, and I won’t rehash that content here. Follow my link for possible solutions to the issue.

Actually, I will touch on one item - is OraNA an aggregation of posts, or an aggregation of people? In the current business environment, I believe that it is most important that we understand the PEOPLE with whom we associate. Non-technical items such as blogger dinners help pave the way for technical interactions in the future, and can, dare I say it, help cement business and technical relationships.

I for one would err on the side of too much content - items, after all, CAN be filtered or skipped - rather than too little content.

(That having been said, I have not requested, and will not request, that my blog be aggregated by OraNA, since such a small portiono of even the technical content would be of interest to its readers. Methings Howard would go well over the deep end if he were forced to read my views on Ron Paul supporters…)

Cheers

Tim…

What’s that supposed to mean, Jake? What reader do you suppose I’m using? You do know there’s a website called http://www.orana.info, right? I mean, you are aware of things that go on in the Oracle community like blog aggregator websites, yes?

So when I visit this OraNA website, what button was it I am supposed to hit to stop what you rightly call a nightmare from clogging the page up?

Perhaps if you stopped to think in that thinktank of yours, you might have anticipated what your little bit of silliness would do to sites like OraNA. And if you stopped assuming that whatever piece of software you happen to have on your desktop is on everyone else’s desktop, you might not come out with complete guff like the comment I’ve just quoted.

I think the logo you used for this is revealing. “Infectious memes”… well, absolutely. Just like a virus, in fact. And just like a script kiddie, you haven’t the slightest concern about the consequences of your actions on others. Let them deal with it by pressing some button or other… Problem sorted! Except it’s not and it’s a problem that shouldn’t have been created in the first place.

Not a good advert for OracleApps, I would have said.