The danger of posting links without comment.

So a few days ago I tweeted (and plurked, and facebooked, and whatever elsed) the link to Sady Doyle’s #MooreandMe protest because, in the ongoing Wikileaks coverage fiasco, I found it interesting. I posted it without comment. On Plurk, a friend of mine disagreed with some of the points contained in the post, and our ensuing discussion made me realize that I have more to say about this than 140 characters at a time will allow. First of all, the trouble — okay, one of the troubles — with using Twitter, Tumblr, Plurk, Facebook, etc. instead of a long-form site like this one is that people like me have the tendency to make the mistake of posting links without comment. This is dangerous, because the assumption has become “I agree with...