even tho i am not much of a participant, i am also against moving to a blog 
for the reasons simon and jeremy and others point out and also for selfish 
reasons like i just don't get to a lot of web-based discussions ... 
however, i see value in somehow initiating a blog as an extension of or 
support to the list and this is in keeping with the project idea of 
'writing and the digital life' ... blogging is certainly in there as a 
shaper of digital life right now ... anyway, it would seem like there's 
some potential there - whether the blog is used for posting news and 
announcements or other kind of non-discussed type stuff or for people who 
prefer to post/engage in that manner, or perhaps just as another kind of 
archive - many lists, for example, have announcements channels and 
discussion channels as an information management strategy ... perhaps 
there's some interest in seeing it not so much as an outright shift but as 
a way of enhancing the way the project can and does engage an action 
research methodology (does that idea still have currency these days?), 
diverifying communication etc etc ... i've just planted some strawberries 
in my garden and i am having the best time watching them grow exponentially 
... all best, linda




At 03:31 AM 22/07/2005, you wrote:
>   I'm personally very much against moving to a blog and I think that Jeremy
>in his last few posts has succintly described the issues that for me mean
>this would be a bad move for the list and I have yet to see these issues
>addressed by any of the pro-blog listees. It is not a matter of access it is
>very much an issue regarding whether an environment works well for
>discussion and I do not think that a blog can.
>
>best
>
>Simon
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy Hunsinger
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Sent: 7/21/2005 12:50 AM
>Subject: Re: [WDL] shifting to a blog
>
>The difference is in the mode of provision of and requirements of
>access.  I agree with Jenny that blogs can provide email outlets and
>that is interesting... but that generally does not include the
>discussion, which is usually only threaded discussion.  the other
>problem is that while it is fine to post things to  blogs from email
>and many people do that... when you do that from multiple parties, if
>you can imagine,the quotations, etc. all reposted to the blog.  a
>blog contrarily is usually cleaner than that, and i suspect finding
>that on the web in a blog format, instead of in a n email list format
>that can be interacted with in bloglike means, is a substantive
>difference.    The way we communicate vie email is post-response, it
>forms a tree, that divides ad infinitum, and occasionally
>recombines.   the way a blog discussion continues is via threads,
>which branches, but the replies are to the previous part of the
>thread.  the difference is between a frayed rope, where threads get
>smaller and smaller, as compared to a rhyzomatic strawberry plant
>where things get mixed and intertwined and the whole becomes itself
>in a way that is different than the way the individual threads are
>part of a rope.

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