Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:28:03 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
From: "Barry L. Newton" <bnewton at ashcomp.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: This list is five years old today
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Mike B. wrote:
>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.
>--
>Matter/Energy cannot be created or destroyed; nor can it be returned
>without a receipt.

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Barry