Note 1: since my friend @Sapphire SeaLion's Twitter account is protected (to follow her, you need to ask really really nicely), some of the features in these embedded tweets may not show up properly due to the way that Twitter's fancy-pants script works for this embed-code-thingy.
Note 2: since @Sapphire SeaLion's Twitter account is protected and I wanted to respect her privacy, I asked her directly for permission to copy tweets of hers that appear here. See below for that statement of permission.
Note 3: because of account protection and privacy, Storify would not let me display @Sapphire SeaLion's tweets at all. I kinda sorta tried to spoof it here, although that could be why Twitter's script is not handling some of these tweets in a manner consistent with the others... You get the idea.
Enough with the disclaimers and disclosures...
Hey twitterz! If I presented an idea to a specific person 2.5y ago, and now same idea is mainstream + person is even better-known... (1/2)
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
(2/2) ...in community + is propounding same idea, but I never saw any recognition for my input, is it wrong to be a little bitter about it?
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@MGhydro If that person outright stole your idea? Sure. But only if you accept that you should've done it first.
— sapphiresealion (@SapphireSeaLion) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion OK. Not blatant idea theft, but I'm not sure he'd be so prominent in subject now if I hadn't ventured into it w him then.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion And thing is, I *was* doing it then, but I was still forming the idea and wasn't as articulate about it in public...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... while he had a built-in audience (journalism) to simply pass the idea on to others as significant advocacy position...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
Statement of full disclosure: I moved the following tweet from it's actual time-stamp (1:01 pm CDT) to this position in the conversation in order to maintain our narrative flow.
.@MGhydro Hard to say. I know I've launched friends into projects after we talk about something & vice versa. Thought that was how sci worked
— sapphiresealion (@SapphireSeaLion) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... and yes! that's how sci works, and I'm always happy to see an idea blossom even in someone else's care...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... but he doesn't do sci, in fact chose not to hire me because I was focused there, instead of journalism aspect of biz.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... no longer sore abt lost job possibility, mostly that he's getting recognition for idea even while doing it wrong...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... but then no-one is really doing it *right* because the idea is still really all talk (journalism) and no action (sci).
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... so maybe that's why I should *not* be bitter now, because he's still just *talking* abt the idea...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@sapphiresealion ... and I still have an opportunity to slam the sci and save the world. Thanks, this was therapeutic and very helpful!
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@MGhydro :)
— sapphiresealion (@SapphireSeaLion) October 3, 2012
And since @Sapphire SeaLion's Twitter account is protected...
@sapphiresealion would it be OK w you if I embed your responses @ me in blog post? Since your acct protected, I want to make clear request.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
.@MGhydro Sure! Send me a link when you're done? Thanks for asking; I appreciate it!
— sapphiresealion (@SapphireSeaLion) October 3, 2012
A short while later, while starting to compile this post, I had a remembery...
Oh, I just thought of something + I think this is what *actually* bugs me about it: In my (2-day) conversation with that person years ago...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... he stated clearly and more than once that his was *not* an advocacy org. Just journalism, no policy positions or statements or agenda.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
But this is a subject in which sustainability is itself a policy position, and his org has a fundamental orientation in that regard...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... and for a while their remit was just journalism... until the awards started and he got into the spotlight and he was asked for opinions.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
And in this field, simply to point to one's own (org's) journalism and say "heed the warning that this evidence provides" is to advocate...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... because there remain deeply entrenched and invested parties who would prefer that we *not* see that evidence or read that story...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... because our recognition of evidence and warnings is not in their profit-making interests. Open + honest journalism is seen as a threat.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
Sure, to have the fortitude and strength of one's organization supporting the maintenance of honest journalism--that is certainly admirable.
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
But I suppose my problem is this: If one is going to shift from a platform of non-advocacy to a statement of position on a critical issue...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... + do so in a field of global importance (IMO) + then dedicate resources of a global journalism org to the advocacy of that position...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... does that not violate the ethical basis of balanced + dispassionate journalism? Instead of reporting "these are your options" ...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
... it has become "this is what you should do." It may very well be that I'm making too much of that aspect when what *really* bugs me is...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
1. I was told that the org was, and was to remain, a non-advocate in the discussion (which clarified my own fitness for a job there) ...
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
2. If you're going to take a stand on this particular issue, given all the org + community support, at least do so with the SCIENCE in hand!
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
Okay, so maybe the 140-character forum-that-is-twitter isn't the best place for this kind of thing, so with that flourish...
[end rant][takes a bow] [exits stage right]
— Matthew Garcia (@MGhydro) October 3, 2012
Appropriate and proper recognition and thanks: I learned the proper way to embed tweets in Blogger via this blog post from Katy Widrick.
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