Tucows, You seem to have missed the point. People here are commenting on the loss of _dialog_. dialog is 2 way communication.
MHO: A podcast is a monolog. You have to have the technology to use the podcast. I cannot imagine any implementation that would allow responses to a podcast to appear within the same medium as the podcast. See my notes on blog comments below before protesting about comment forums for podcasts. Podcasts cannot be processed by speed reading. Weblog is a slightly enhanced monolog. You have the opportunity to post comments. However, those comments are only available within the scope of the blog post. If you do not read a particular blog post, then you do not read the comment. A blog post is NOT a dialog. If I want to comment on a blog entry, I have to do it within a short period after the blog posting. Even then there is a VERY good chance that anybody who would be intersted in my comment will never read it because they have read the blog entry already. There is a possiblity that they will return to read the comments, but how likely is this? Maybe the time for the mailing list has past. Maybe not. There is a lot to be said about the 'keep it simple stupid' principal. IMHO, if your customers want dialog by email list, you should be committing to dialog by email list, but I don't know how many people want this. I do know that I don't personally bother to waste my time looking at your web site to see if there happens to be something intersting. I'll look for documentation if I need it. As far as news goes, the only channel I am tuned to is my email box. If it isn't there, I'm not there to listen. -- Tim. If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody there to hear does it make a sound? On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Arthur van Dorp wrote: > Hi > > > Joey is in the process of putting the finishing touches on a podcast > > with Alain Chenais (VP Prod. Dev) and they touch on exactly some of > > these issues. You'll be able to listen to it later today - Alain really > > lays out a clear vision around the messaging infrastructure. I quite > > like it. > > I always feel a bit bad whenever someone puts up a podcast because they > put quite a bit of effort in it and I'm never going to listen to the > podcasts nonetheless. Either I don't have the right player installed > (normally iTunes isn't installed on my machines) or I read about it in a > mail while offline or I'm in an office without audio equipment etc. To > make things short: Will there be a transcript? > > Hmpf, I've just realized that I didn't read your blogs for a long time. > Off to subscribing for email updates. Just don't put up yet another site > where one has to look for info (and sign up with yet another username > and password). ;) > > Arthur > > > _______________________________________________ > domains-gen mailing list > [email protected] > http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] BareMetal.com http://baremetal.com/ Dev Team ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
