Stephen Downes

My views are aligned with D'Arcy Norman on audience interaction: "I don’t want to be tempted to write about anything unless I want to. The audience feedback can be pretty strong, and it’s distracting. As Gould described it, it’s conservatising. To pay attention to that audience is to try to repeat previous successes, and to possibly improve on them, rather than to explore new and uncharted territory."