On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Roger Burton West wrote:
> Killfiles.
> Or if you've got a reasonably civilised community you can say "look, I
> want to talk about X; I know Y may invalidate it, but for the purposes
> of this thread I'd like to ignore that". That's worked for me on
> Pyramid.
Sometimes I just want to have a focused conversation with a group of
people whom I respect and want input from, and don't want to mess with
filtering or asking other people to keep their traps shut if they
can't stay on my topic.
I pretty much get this with my blog, except it's a rather awkward tool
for conversation. In the case of my blog, I don't know exactly who I
want to invite to the conversation, so it's open for anybody to
discover and read. I don't want a _private_ conversation... I just
don't want to get wrapped up in little discussions that don't further
my cause. The blog helps that, oddly, by making it difficult to carry
on a conversation.
I really don't know what the ideal is. My blog certainly isn't. But
a mailing list isn't quite what I'm looking for in that area, either.
I suppose the blog is a little arrogant... "we're here to discuss _my_
ideas and issues, not yours." Sometimes I want that from other
people... I'm interested in hearing _their_ ideas and not the ideas of
their "followers."
> Or you can separate "things I want to discuss" (which become mailing
> list or news posts) from "things I just want to say" (which become
> articles on a web site). I think the "comment on any article" paradigm
> of the blog is actively unhelpful in generating any sort of distinction
> between these two sorts of post.
There's stuff on my blog I probably should have posted here. Or
TAORP, which kind of overlaps with this list.
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