Indeed, it's all about using the right tool for the job at hand. Blogs
(even with comments and trackbacks) are much more about one-to-many
communication instead of free-wheeling conversations.
Really, you could make the argument that a USENET Newsgroup would be the
perfect platform (threaded conversations, putting things aside and
returning to them later), but that actually *is* an example of
technology so old that nobody uses it anymore...
(BTW, Does anybody still have a Gopher server up anywhere?)
Ed
http://marginalist.blogsome.com
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Sloan, Bernie
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 9:07 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Goodbye to the list.
Grace Wiersma said:
"For a lively and idealistic community like this one, even I (a late- to
post-modern adopter of social software) would recommend moving the
discussion to a blog, so that when I have time to kill I can just go see
what's cooking, rather than work up a sweat slugging it out with the
incoming traffic while staying on top of mission-critical mail... What I
really wanted to say here was that to me it has seemed oddly
contradictory, in fact, that this discussion was launched as a mailing
list and not as a Web log".
I'm sure I'm not the only person who has thought that mailing lists were
one of the first (if not the first) manifestations of social software??
And can't most of the functions Grace asks for be handled by using the
digest mode and/or e-mail filtering (into folders) or by perusing list
archives?
I'm no curmudgeon, but I hate to see a computer-mediated communication
format dissed just because it's been around for awhile.
Bernie Sloan
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