On Aug 7, 2011, at 1:41 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
Yet, some noncostuming email lists I am on are so active, every single day, that there is no way I can follow all the messages. including a couple of majordomo lists.
Is it because costume is visual? For your other e-mail lists, are they about visual arts, or can everything be expressed with writing?
On H-costume, if someone wants to show a finished costume or a project in progress, they need to direct us to a website. At first it was something like Flickr or their own web page, and later a blog. Blogs and facebook, on the other hand, have the capability built into the system to share images.
With a picture being worth 1000 words, it's faster to post images with captions than it is to type out the description.
So, rather than write a post to H-costume and set up a link for the photos, people can share in just the one place and be done with it. In the case of one Yahoogroup, there is a member who posts several times a week — the link for her blog. She doesn't share significant info on the Yahoogroup.
I enjoy H-costume as a view into what people are doing in other areas and eras of costume. I like that it comes into my in-box rather than having to go to various blogs or web forums.
Even on facebook, I often miss things. I thought I had "liked" Penny's facebook but did not remember seeing any posts from it. I double checked and it is there, unfortunately not close to times that I would look at facebook so I would miss the posts that way. I see more about The Costume Gallery on H-costume than I do on facebook.
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