I would say that it is a generation thing, but I know that this list has
some younger persons aboard.
I belong to a lot of lists, but rarely play in the Facebook world, which I
consider to be suitable for the terminally trivial.
I am a regular on various forums, but I often use email to keep track of
those.
Blogs are completely different.
The one thing that this list misses, but that others manage, is an RSS feed.
This is the delivery mechanism that unites blogs, social networks and
forums.
I am surprised that jiscmail has not implemented RSS feeds on its lists.
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> Subject: [PSCI-COM] Is pscicom list a dinosaur?
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> Hello,
>
> In a recent converstion with me, a new young science writer expressed
> surprise that this mailing list was still so active. The idea
> of mailing
> lists seemed old-fashioned to him, given the rise of forums and blogs
> etc. So I wondered what other people on the list thought. Is our list
> coming to an evolutionary dead end? Have mailing lists had their day?
> Has the younger/more foreward looking science communication community
> migrated to other watering holes in the virtual world? If you are
> talking/sharing science communication or PUS issues elsewhere, I'd
> really like to hear about it.
>
> Lalita
>
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