Typically this is managed by a group blog. There are lots of instances of physicists, designers, programmers, political commentators, etc group blogs.
One issue is continuity. Group blogs do tend to be articles rather than conversations but I think that can be managed. Articles+Comments do have the continuity you want. A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com/) is famous for this sort of thing .. very considered design discussions. They also publish (A Book Apart). They are also "activists" having contributed to serious design and the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) technology. -- Owen On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Nicholas Thompson < [email protected]> wrote: > H’lo, **** > > ** ** > > As many of you know I have long held the fantasy that groups of people > (like us, for instance) can develop novel and interesting texts by holding > long email correspondences, which then get edited into texts, and re > edited, and ultimately published. Over the last years I have abstracted > two collaborative publications out of such correspondences, so I know I > works. **** > > ** ** > > But it would be a whole lot easier if there were a way of transferring > email correspondences into a Word file so they could be read in historical > order. Google Groups helps a bit because it deletes some redundancy, but > still, not all redundancy, and scraping a google groups thread into an an > intelligible word file is still a terrific labor of love. **** > > ** ** > > I wonder if any of you out there have a trick for doing this. Or a mail > software that is more scrapable. **** > > ** ** > > Nick **** > > ** ** > > Nicholas S. Thompson**** > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology**** > > Clark University**** > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/**** > > http://www.cusf.org**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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