<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 22, 2011, at Jan 22, 20111:26 PM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 1:40 AM, Matt Stanton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:inflatablesoulmate@brothersofchaos.com">inflatablesoulmate@brothersofchaos.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.8ex; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex; position: static; z-index: auto; ">
Blogs are really only useful as a way for a single person to broadcast<br>
to a lot of users, then allows for often-ignored, generally short<br>
responses from random commenters who are viewed as being much less<br>
trustworthy sources of information. This makes it a great medium for<br>
the distribution of helpful articles to the rest of the MUG, but doesn't<br>
foster discussion or the back-and-forth exchange of help and ideas that<br>
the mailing list offers. If you wanted to have a list-like web medium,<br>
you would probably want to look into forum software of some sort. The<br>
only reason I could see for using forum software over the mailing list<br>
would be the ability to look up information from a previous conversation<br>
that occurred just outside of your memory.<br>
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