On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:35:28AM -0400, Tom C wrote: > I confess having some difficulty with blogs. > . . . > And finally maybe, somewhat rudely, but not intended so, I find a blog > a bit akin to watching someone's home movies. They tend to mean much > more to the creator than to the audience . . .
Precisely. Almost every blog is written mostly for the person writing the blog; that's who sets the rules and guidelines. A post to a discussion group, on the other hand, is (or at least should be) written to conform to the guidelines of the group. And a discussion group is precisely that - the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, and a genuine discussion is usually far more interesting than listening to a single point of view. It isn't perfect; there are always one or two people who don't seem able (or, perhaps more accurately, willing) to fit in with the group mores. But there are ways of dealing with that. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
