On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dan Minette <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think that is only part of it. I think that the general trend away from > email lists to twitter is a strong factor. For example, the Culture list is > a lot quieter than it was 6 years ago, even though the mix of folks hasn't > changed that much. 8-9 years ago, there were 100 emails/day here, and most > of it wasn't due to clashes between viewpoints as different as yours and the > median of this list's viewpoints.
Is the email list falloff in average traffic strongly correlated with the rise of twitter? To me, twitter does not seem like a close substitute. A closer substitute might be web discussion forums, which have been growing steadily for years. The closest substitute to a book email discussion list that I can think of would be the discussion boards on goodreads.com. _______________________________________________ http://box535.bluehost.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l_mccmedia.com
