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	<title>Comments on: A lost opportunity.</title>
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		<title>by: Ted Rheingold</title>
		<link>http://www.greenyear.org/2007/07/24/a-lost-opportunity/#comment-1063</link>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2007 23:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description>Stick to your guns.

There's nothing worse then a prolonged online bicker to sap the life out of any project. The internet is great for airing concerns and awful at developing consensus. In fact if the internet was our only means to communicate no one would ever feel a conversation was ended or a topic closed.

And putting your emotional energy into trying to make every last person on the internet happy is as useful as trying to get evangelicals to think that their daughters should get a complete education. It's just not going to happen.

So then the only option is to put your energy into what you think is the right and best use. Take time to consider other view points, but not expect to be able to change them.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stick to your guns.</p>
<p>There&#8217;s nothing worse then a prolonged online bicker to sap the life out of any project. The internet is great for airing concerns and awful at developing consensus. In fact if the internet was our only means to communicate no one would ever feel a conversation was ended or a topic closed.</p>
<p>And putting your emotional energy into trying to make every last person on the internet happy is as useful as trying to get evangelicals to think that their daughters should get a complete education. It&#8217;s just not going to happen.</p>
<p>So then the only option is to put your energy into what you think is the right and best use. Take time to consider other view points, but not expect to be able to change them.
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