Quoting Andrew T Trembley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It's your choice to use it or not.
Quite so. I much prefer the open Internet. I do recognise that more restricted online communities have always held appeal for many. > Cheryl has offered up a few ideas on how to extend the franchise, > such as using the same tag taxonomy that I defined in your own blog > and searching/aggregating tags through Technorati. > > You could just choose to pull the RSS feed of the community through > an aggregator. > > The downside? Technorati is an extra step, a necessary one that's > worth it if you want to find out if something has already been > recommended, but not necessarily worth it to do a quick view of > recommendations. I don't need Technorati, merely to follow RSS feeds -- but sure, that is useful to many people and a good idea. > The other downside? Choosing to stay out of LiveJournal takes you out > of adding your response to a recommendation. Yes, that's that business of it being a restricted community that I was referring to. > > Anyhow, the Internet's a _whole_ lot bigger, more inclusive, and less > > inbred than LJ, and _that_ is part of what made Cheryl's setup a > > success. > > You can cut the bullshit, Rick. It's regrettable you feel that way, since I'm not in the habit of saying things I don't mean, especially regarding technology -- and I wrote that part _quite_ seriously, and on the basis of long deliberation. It's a core truth. Sorry you don't find it palatable. > You're choosing to exclude yourself, not me. To the contrary: You're choosing to exclude everyone who is not in your chosen service-offering ghetto. Your loss -- and the community's loss. -- Cheers, Founding member of the Hyphenation Society, a grassroots-based, Rick Moen not-for-profit, locally-owned-and-operated, cooperatively-managed, [EMAIL PROTECTED] modern-American-English-usage-improvement association. _______________________________________________ basfa mailing list [email protected] http://vesta.wallis.com/mailman/listinfo/basfa
