On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Carl D Cravens wrote: CDC>Blogs are a different creature... or a multitude of different CDC>creatures. I post essays on a website. The technology I use to do it CDC>is mostly irrelevant. That I allow comments on my essays... I've CDC>considered turning that off, because I don't _want_ to have long CDC>conversations around my essays on a website. The comment system is CDC>primarly for feedback to the author, not round-table discussion. CDC>I've considered piping the relevant comments into the TAORP mailing CDC>list. It's not the software that's necessarily reinventing it... it's the culture. Not wanting round-table discussion *is* a broken feature of the culture, IMHO. CDC>I'm suffering from information overload... I don't have time to read a CDC>hundred _discussions_ a day. But I do have time to read the distilled CDC>thoughts of certain people whose opinions I respect. See, now, Gamehawk will have the capability of saying "I want to subscribe to KarenCravens. She's really cool." And you'll get my posts, no matter where they are on the site. (I recommend subscribing in root-posts-only mode, though, else you'll get every time I say "Me too!" out of context...) CDC>Of course, there are blogs that ought to be mailing lists... CDC>sometimes my posts generate a lot of discussion that I really didn't CDC>expect or even want. That's when I wish there was an easy way to push CDC>that discussion onto a mailing list. Definitely something I've considered in Gamehawk. CDC>My campaign has no feeling of coherency to it. No strong reason why CDC>the PCs fight crime together. Because they're heroes (well, Fastlane is anyhow). How can it be any stronger than that? -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
