Perfectibility in real estate weblogging: Revising yourself to something approaching genius
I replaced Teri Lussier’s photo recently. I’m talking about the little thumbnail photos you see running down the sidebar at BloodhoundBlog. Guys are easy to crop, because our hair is short. But in my original crop of Teri’s photo, I left her too much hair — which left her with way too little face. No big deal. I went back into the original photo and made a tighter crop. Now her face is approximately the same size as the other contributors.
But that practical example comprises what may be the most important lesson of weblogging (or even of life): If something’s not right, fix it. This is an inherently revisable medium. Changes go down the memory hole, so there is always the peril that someone will change something in order to deceive or occlude. But we gain the corresponding power to chase a convergent series of minor corrections to something that just might blow a kiss at perfection.
Most big things are accretions of little things, and, if the little things are right, the big things are that much easier to handle.
