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From: Jonathan Kepple <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:25 AM
Subject: Re: [WDL] WDL blog now live
>I voted in favour of the blog because I find this current interface scrappy
and overwhelming. Often I struggle to cope with the layout of the text and
that shouldn’t be an issue.
I disagree that _struggling with the layout of the text_ sjhould not be an
issue. It is an issue. Text is a poor communication tool.
I think I am going to struggle to cope with the laminated shiny surface of
the blog. I find it almost overwhelming on the blog with its smell hint of
corporate crap
>The blog looks a bit more organised
yes
looks
Ive just been witness to someone tidying up a deceased writer artist's
studio where an idiot has gone in and tidied up. But it looked terrible,
said the idiot (this judgement of idiocy is not intended to carry over to
anyone else, I need to say it). I might have said But we were reading it
Discussion between people is NOT organised, not collectively
>A large number of the regular posters here have signed-up as writers –
there
appear to be more Chiefs than there are Indians.
Implying another difference between blog and list which only just occurs to
me in my ignorance; but it wasn't mentioned when this was discussed - the
list is open to all, now it seems that may not be a good idea on a blog
> If the blog format is to
work, it will require these writers to make the effort to respond to one
another’s posts, rather than simply concentrating on their own entries.
well that applies to lists too, and there one automatically gets the text
one is replying to in the message
> If
that doesn’t happen, then the effect will be similar to a roomful of
individual computers, all quietly getting on with their own tasks, as
opposed to a thriving network.
the myth of the network, a *thriving network
>If the blog / list dilemma can be broken down to a choice between fractured
community or crappy layout, then I’ll go with the latter.
should have said that earlier
>My second concern is that, by its very nature, the blog will drift
off-topic. I don’t ever want to read about the amusing behaviour of anyone’s
cat, unless it is some kind of cyber-cat*
... er...
*
when I was running poetry readings in pubs, opeople said why don't you do it
in another context
i moved to a theatre / gallery
everyone said - can't we go back to pubs.
L
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