Taran pouts about the same things I do - info glut.
It seems to me that listservs will, sadly, get marginalized if the list owners don't figure out content management solutions which offer more options to the subscribers than they commonly do now.
On my wish list would be more options, for which I would be willing to pay a small annual fee. They include these:
a) I could choose if I want a "short version" (50?) (100?) (250?) words, with the "extended commentary" available at <wwww.xyz.blog? <www.wiki.com>;
b) I could choose if I want the entire test of all subscribers;
c) I could choose to receive entirely unmoderated submissions for subscribers I had pre-approved (such as from Taran Rampersad and Andy Carvin which I often read first...and then re-read -- thanks to you both!)
d) I could choose to receive moderated submissions for identified subscribers with the balance to come to me as per (a) or (b).
I support the use of wiki's and blogs -- but I find their use best for relatively long term projects of narrowly identified subjects - such as the Yale Global Information Flow Conference where either wiki's or blogs or brilliant classroom bulletin boards such as http://www.nicenet.org could be put to good long term use.
By the way, did I miss some posts from the Yale organizers? Are they not reading our mail? Do they care what we have to say about the beauties of virtual conferencing? Do they have fears that the virtual will reduce attendance? Are those fears justified?
Would such reductions,worldwide, be a good thing?
Global Flow organizers - what do you have to say?
At 12:43 PM -0500 2/4/05, Taran Rampersad wrote:
Steve Eskow wrote:
The "listserv" is a mode of dialog that fits the genius of the online environment, and thus there are thousands of them, and they will continue to flourish and multiply.
Listservs are self limiting because in propagation, they split the attention of people. If all listservs are equal - and they are not, because our judgement brings weight which makes them unequal - and a person subscribes to one listserv, then they spend their time 'there'. Introduce another listserv, the attention would be split 2 ways. 3 listservs, 3 ways. And so on.
As someone subscribed to about 1000 RSS feeds, Google alerts and about 100 email lists, I find listservs to be very limited in that I only focus on a few. One of these lists is the DDN list (obviously). But when I spend time on the DDN, I'm not spending it on the WSIS Civil Society lists, or the Latin American ICT lists, or what have you. Infoglut. I am now up to about 4000 emails a day, with about 400 SPAM messages that sneak through filters and Mozilla.
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