This is how it is for me too,
franc
On 19 Jul 2005, at 12:16, Jeremy Hunsinger wrote:
> I am strongly against shifting to a blog. i watched papyrus news
> switch to a blog last year... the vibrant community surrounding it
> dissipated within the year. the web is a fundamentally different
> medium and functionality than email. whereas email pushes data to us
> each and every post, the web requires us to visit, and even those
> sites with rss readers or cross-posting email do not have the same
> phenomenological sense of community, the textuality is different, the
> design is different and people act differently. to begin to come to
> these issues, ask yourself: when was the last time that you went to
> your scholarly associations website just to check what's up vs when
> was the last time you read an email from them? and why?
>
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