CEP, Politics, and Decision Making
Posted on September 29th, 2008 by Tim Bass
I have changed my mind about injecting presidential politics into The CEP Blog. I thought about linking complex events and politics into a discussion on complex events and the decision making process.
However, this approach risks alienating folks who take their politics serious or have other concerns. For that reason, I am going to go another, less political, direction on The CEP Blog. I will not blog on the US presidential election here.
In my next series of blog posts I will discuss how asymmetric event processing and asymmetric situational awareness was the genesis for complex event processing.
Filed under: CEP Tutorials, Complex Event, Complex Event Processing
Tim,
if its your blog, and not the common property of the CEP community, you are entitled to speak your mind on whatever topic you choose. I am disappointed that you took the previous post down, not because I agree or disagree with its contents, but because you have let others dictate what you can and cannot post on yoru own blog.
-m
Hi Marc,
Yes, I agree with you. You are absolutely right. On the other hand, I don’t want The CEP Blog to lose focus by alienating folks who have strong poltical opinions.
In addition, as outspoken and independent spirited as I am, I think it is best not to inject presidential election politics into the blog at this time.
After all, there are many more people more respected for political commentary than me, so it seems I run the risk of alienating people who want to read about CEP/EP and not my political opinions.
Quite frankly, your comment has me thinking that I should not have taken down my post! Thanks for letting my know your thoughts!
Yours sincerely, Tim
Hi Marc,
I forgot to mention that we had a similar issue many years ago over at http://www.unix.com where I began discussing presidential politics in our off-topic forum.
A similar thing happen then that happened when I posted my political commentary on the CEP blog. A number of folks got really offended. Then, our core mission of a technology forum to bring like minded technical people together seemed at risk of getting sidetracked.
Then, I put my personal political opinions aside (for better or for worse) and we all decided to keep “politics and religion” out of the forums, since the focus was technology, not politics.
Here, we see lively debates on CEP/EP and sometimes things get a bit heated, for example, Mark Palmer attempting to ridicule me (and get indirectly personal) on my opinion about order routing. While I don’t agree with Mark’s CEP approach nor his debate style, I have come to expect it from certain CEP community members and know certain folks will “go below the belt” if I blog against there opinion or marketing position, LOL.
The same for EPTS. When I called it a “marketing society” and “narrowly focused” and challenged some of the more goofy EP glossary terms and usage; that caused Opher to get personal, defensive and a bit sarcastic. I know ahead of time that Opher will use sarcasm and fallacy to win win public debates, it is a “know quantity”. Nevermind, this is The CEP Blog….
If I open up this blog to political commentary, we might lose focus completely and spin out of control !! Certainly, I will have more readers (ha ha), as CEP/EP is not the most sexiest or talked about subject in the world :-); however, I might lose hard-core CEP readers.
Anyway, as always, I look forward to your opinion and well as the opinion of others. If enough folks really want me to post political commentary, I will revisit my (perhaps wrong) decision.
Yours faithfully, Tim