To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 21:50:31 -0500
From: "Mike B." <omni at mail.omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: This list is five years old today
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

At 2/12/2007 08:30 PM, Eva Whitley wrote:
>Keith F. Lynch wrote:
> >
> > But people may not read your blog entries.  An email list or a
> > newsgroup is like a con:  Everyone gets together in one place.  Blogs
> > and Livejournals are like inviting people to your house.  Even if you
> > invite everyone who was at a con, a lot fewer people are likely to
> > show up.
> >
>I think you have it backwards: having a blog on my Website means anyone
>can read what I write, and it more like people getting together in one
>place. Visiting my site is like coming over to talk to me at a con. A
>mailing list is more like showing up at a meeting, and making an
>announcement. Cons are usually bigger than meetings. --Eva

I think blogs are more like putting up a billboard.  You may have a
larger audience, but you don't know who they are, what they think
about what you've written, or what they are saying about it to those
they are interacting with.

If you add a discussion forum to the blog that fixes the problems,
but then it's more like graffiti on a wall...everyone can add what
they like, but you have to keep going back there to see if anything
has been added...and yuo may need to scrub off irrelevant junk,
depending on what sort of graffiti wall you want to have.  I never
seem to remember to go back and look, and there are too many walls to
keep track of anyway, so I prefer things to come find me, like on
this list. ;-)

-- Mike B.
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