On Thu, 20 May 2004, Carl D Cravens wrote: CDC>How do blogs affect discussion group (mailing lists, web forums, CDC>newsgroups) traffic? Blogs that accept user comments are a lot like a web CDC>forum where only one person (or a limited set of people) are allowed to CDC>start conversations. But I think those are like Slashdot... lots of CDC>people make comments, but how many of them go back and read any comments CDC>made after the initial visit? They don't seem to sustain conversation. Which is why Gamehawk will support blogs-as-mailing-lists, along with blogs-as-wikis and wikis-as-mailing-lists and blogs-as-wikis. Or something. CDC>There is cross-pollenation of blogs.... I respond in my blog to posts or CDC>essays in Gamethink (http://gamethink.blogspot.com/) and The 20 x 20' Room CDC>(http://www.20by20room.com/), for instance. But the authors and readers CDC>of those blogs may or may not come read my blog. Well, that's what Trackback's for, if you've got 'em (does anything but MT?) -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
