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Well, I guess that explains that.
It sucks a lot... there's not much else that one can say, I guess. Den Beste asked to be spared platitudes, so I won't issue any.
I will note, however, that I think I can credit him for a great deal of what notoriety and/or popularity my blog has—a lot of my readers came here via his links, particularly back when we sparred regularly over the merits and foibles of Apple. I'm sure that if not for those exchanges, I'd be a lot more glib and a lot more naïve in my arguments than I am now. Trial by fire, I suppose. I could hardly have asked for more stringent conditions under which to develop.
It's disheartening to hear of the characteristics of the reader mail he gets, and the effect it has on him; but for what it's worth, I still think this observation holds water. Indeed, a mutual reader (one of the involved parties in the exchange concerned) wrote me afterwards to tell me I had it spot-on. I bring this up merely in the hopes of casting that phenomenon into a different light, one that might make constructive criticism from readers into an illustration of the cooperative nature of research and discourse in the blogosphere, rather than a concerted assault by a zillion malevolent mosquitoes. This perspective might not do any good, but then again it might make things a little easier to bear. Who knows—but there it is.
At the very least, and without mawkishness, thanks for everything.
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Brian Tiemann
