GregM wrote: > Oliver Frank wrote: >> In my limited understanding of blogs, a blog belongs to one person >> and tends to provide one way communication from that person, whereas >> in an email discussion list like this one everybody participates on >> an equal basis. > I guess this list is a rather elite group Oliver and not everybody > feels as though they can participate on an equal basis. It is, > perhaps, one of its handicaps. :-) G I think Greg highlights one of the problems with email lists and by inference one of the valuable features of blogging. We all have differing areas of interest and hence differing levels of expertise in the various areas discussed here. For example on the ozdocit.org lists I put a lot of value on the information I get from Greg on surgical problems and on Jon Patrick's computer based language analyses, but not vice versa. Greg is probably bored with my recurrent complaints about the huge secondary costs of using proprietary software and, frankly, so am I.
Blogging lets you write about the things you care, and probably, know about. Whilst this is therapeutic you may hope that somebody else might read what you have written. You could post a link to an email list or two and if the thread is hot that is not inappropriate. You might hope that Google will find you but the long tail (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Tail) is against you. Probably the most successful strategies are to directly link to other blog sites as David tries to do, http://www.aushealthit.blogspot.com/, although it is still early days in the HealthIT blogosphere. I suspect the most successful strategy is to link up through delicious tags (http://del.icio.us/) or perhaps some other new web technology that I have not yet fathomed. Nothing will replace email lists however. The argy-bargy is lively and occasionally amusing. Yet it brings out the worst in people as Matt G. will attest. You'd have to go to the pub on Saturday night to beat this lot. Love. David _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
