Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:46:54 -0400
Subject: [WSFA] Re: [wsfa-forum] "Magazines have finally killed blogs"
From: "Elspeth Kovar" <ekovar at panix.com>
To: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Cc: "WSFA members" <wsfalist at keithlynch.net>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:
> "RSS as a format and an idea grew directly out of an internet culture
> that many people online today know nothing about: Usenet. The creators
> of RSS grew up on Usenet, and so did its earliest adopters at the turn
> of the century when RSS was at the height of its popularity. Usenet
> was a text-based publishing system that allowed people to create
> newsgroups, kind of like group blogs or Tumblrs, where people could
> swap stories, news, information, pictures, and more. Like blogs, the
> topics of these newsgroups ranged from kinky sex and recipes, to
> microchip architecture and carpentry. And the way most people read
> newsgroups was to subscribe to the ones they liked so that they could
> ignore the thousands of newsgroups that were competing for their
> attention."
>
> http://io9.com/magazines-have-finally-killed-blogs-but-in-a-way-you-461996928

Bother. And just when I finally got the hang of subscribing to things so I didn't have
to go running all around the 'net. Since I never got around to running all around the
'net I was glad that things just showed up to be ignored or not.

Elspeth