This place is great.
I'm not on FB or T, though I read several people's T via the web interface.
These days I mostly hang out at Balloon-Juice but it's aggravating in its own way - one really has to be there almost in real-time to have any conversation, and threads turn over too quickly. And the lack of threading or "mark-read" makes it more like "conversation" at a noisy bar-hopping party than real give-and-take.
This place is great because of its permanence. B-J keeps a decades long database of posts, but it's nearly impossible to search it (and there's no indexing by commenter), and one can't comment after a week or so. Here, one can restart a thread that's decades old if one wants.
New blood is almost always welcome, of course. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
These days I mostly hang out at Balloon-Juice but it's aggravating in its own way - one really has to be there almost in real-time to have any conversation, and threads turn over too quickly. And the lack of threading or "mark-read" makes it more like "conversation" at a noisy bar-hopping party than real give-and-take.
This place is great because of its permanence. B-J keeps a decades long database of posts, but it's nearly impossible to search it (and there's no indexing by commenter), and one can't comment after a week or so. Here, one can restart a thread that's decades old if one wants.
New blood is almost always welcome, of course. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.