On Fri, 16 Dec 2005, Carl D Cravens wrote: CDC>Sometimes I just want to have a focused conversation with a group of CDC>people whom I respect and want input from, and don't want to mess with CDC>filtering or asking other people to keep their traps shut if they CDC>can't stay on my topic. I think blogging is the ultimate in messing with filtering. CDC>I pretty much get this with my blog, except it's a rather awkward tool CDC>for conversation. In the case of my blog, I don't know exactly who I CDC>want to invite to the conversation, so it's open for anybody to CDC>discover and read. I don't want a _private_ conversation... I just CDC>don't want to get wrapped up in little discussions that don't further CDC>my cause. The blog helps that, oddly, by making it difficult to carry CDC>on a conversation. Yeah, and you quite effectively filtered out all the little discussions that *I* wanted to have, that might or might not have furthered your cause. Baby, bathwater. CDC>I really don't know what the ideal is. My blog certainly isn't. But CDC>a mailing list isn't quite what I'm looking for in that area, either. And yet, here we are... CDC>I suppose the blog is a little arrogant... "we're here to discuss _my_ CDC>ideas and issues, not yours." Sometimes I want that from other CDC>people... I'm interested in hearing _their_ ideas and not the ideas of CDC>their "followers." Positive scorefiles. -- Karen J. Cravens silver@phoenyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------- GAMERS Home Page: http://www.phoenyx.net/gamers/
