Dave, I'll be following up with you for GJ after this next edition is out!
:) On a more serious note, I think both arguments are valid - I think longer form articles and short form (twitter, etc) both have their uses - I would love to see a volunteer step up and help manage and run one of them. I think all outreach is good, especially with a good plan and goal behind it. Paul On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Dave Neary <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Joey Ferwerda wrote: >> The attention span of general people are very low. >> Thats the reason why Twitter is 160 characters max, the facebook >> messages are short, most of the Blogs contain a "read more" button with >> 90% of the post, youtube does not allow large video's for regular users >> etc etc. > > At this stage, I have to ask: is this "stop energy" (i.e. "I don't think > you should waste your time doing this") or a proposal to spend more time > with a micro-communication strategy (Twitter, Facebook & daily links > type stuff)? > > I really like the longer articles, and it's the kind of thing I'd like > to see more in the GNOME Journal - and I'd even volunteer to write one > or two, and encourage others to do the same - but I don't want to spend > time arguing about whether it's useful or not. > > Cheers, > Dave. > > -- > Dave Neary > GNOME Foundation member > [email protected] > -- > marketing-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list > -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
