[DM-MUG] dmmug Blog

[Matt Stanton]

Blogs are really only useful as a way for a single person to broadcast 
to a lot of users, then allows for often-ignored, generally short 
responses from random commenters who are viewed as being much less 
trustworthy sources of information.  This makes it a great medium for 
the distribution of helpful articles to the rest of the MUG, but doesn't 
foster discussion or the back-and-forth exchange of help and ideas that 
the mailing list offers.  If you wanted to have a list-like web medium, 
you would probably want to look into forum software of some sort.  The 
only reason I could see for using forum software over the mailing list 
would be the ability to look up information from a previous conversation 
that occurred just outside of your memory.

-- Matt

On 1/21/2011 3:00 PM, Ray Bowler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Could people use the RSS feed on a blog to notify them of a new post?
> On Jan 21, 2011, at Jan 21, 20112:55 PM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:
>
>> I think the list serve is still ideal for the group. But perhaps some topics that come up often or that seem especially important can become useful blog posts. For example, if someone summarized what was learned about putting a webpage in Keynote, that might be a useful blog post. But the everyday conversations might not always be something you would want on a blog.
>>
>> On Jan 21, 2011, at 14:30 , Ray Bowler wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Could we make a blog where which several people could initiate articles and others reply? Could this be a part  the website? I have a lot of questions now. Stuart's comment brings to mind the recent discussion about the website and the purpose of the group. I suspect a blog might have been a better site for this than the list server. Maybe if we had it I could start a good discussion about the purpose of the website.
>>>
>>>
>>> Ray B.
>>> On Jan 21, 2011, at Jan 21, 201112:34 PM, Adamson Dennis wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all
>>>>
>>>> 	I don't think a blog should replace the list serve either. However I think it would add a new dimension of more in-depth resources and conversation.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dennis Adamson
>>>>
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