In short, DeVos appears to be proceeding exactly as an agency head should: give notice, take comments, and explain why a given policy is being adopted.
He replies a few days later, thanking me for my comments and explaining the view of fashion he was attempting to convey.
In this week's Riff, Michael Erard recounts the history of Web site comments and explains how their technical origins has shaped the actual commentary we've come to expect as usual today.
Update: Shortly after this article appeared online, Obama published a piece in the Huffington Post responding to Wright's comments and explaining in more detail his relationship to his former pastor.
Whereupon the executive who wrote the scheduling software for the FedEx fleet shows up in the comments and explains what else determined the choice of hub besides geometry; and discusses how FedEx plans delivery routes for planes serving multiple cities, a famously complex maths problem.
We thank Professor Colyer for his positive and helpful comments and explain our response to each one in turn below.
"He says that when Mr Gilligan asked about the role of Alastair Campbell with regard to the 45 minute issue, he made no comment and explained that he was not involved in the process of drawing up the intelligence parts of the dossier.
As explained above in your first comment, and explained in the first paragraph of the Results, this was presented in our previous work: Klose, S., Flores-Benitez, D., Riedel, F., and Knust, E. (2013).
Yesterday, SchoolScandals.com displayed nothing more than a message in plain text, signed by Skyler, announcing that the "database has been cleansed of all posted comment," and explaining that the earlier site had become "an objectionable mess" because he couldn't afford to hire editors or moderators.
