Just the other day (23/9/05 12:23 pm), Jim Devine opined:
> Is it possible that someone (Michael Perelman?) could decide which
> submissions to pen-l are the most interesting, important, or useful --
> and thus should be recorded on the pen-l blog?
>
the blog is useful as a tool for somewhat structured individual
thought-bites. less as a reference, for which the wiki/site model works
better. the blog, since it provides RSS feeds and is the latest craze,
is a good way to attract surfers to our musings.
so, if you there are posts that should be reference material (jim
devine's explication of nash equilibria) then a wiki is the right forum.
instead, links and analysis current events, etc can be blogged.
one interesting option is to have the blog post to pen-l. so, say you
are writing up a commentary on the current US budget, you could post it
to the blog, and the blog software can be configured to automatically
also send a link (and either all or some of the text) to the list.
one thing that i do want to make clear is that i do not want a blog or
wiki to supplant this list or add redundant functionality.
all of this is not really much of a direct response to your message
quoted above. i think its not a bad idea -- perhaps there can be an
editorial board that elevates posts to blog or wiki pages.
--ravi
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