Hi List, I first started reading Tango-L in 1996, and it has been a great resource for discussion, getting answers, learning about activities in other cities, and generally feeling the pulse of the tango scene around the world.
In the pre-Youtube days, this list, together with a small number of "cyber-tango" link lists compiled by academics, were my essential portals to finding out almost everything about tango. Nowadays, the number of online tango resources has exploded, but not the quality nor the reach. The diffused nature of these sites means there is not as much interesting nor information-dense threads as before. I would like to ask the list: - How many people are currently on Tango-L/Tango-A? I know there were several "exodus" where people moved away to other forums, but has any other lists overtaken Tango-L yet in absolute member numbers/posting numbers? What other discussion / forums do you read regularly? - Besides Tango-L being a place to "scoop" the latest news (e.g. someone famous died), which other online resource has a reliable breaking news feed relating to tango? Unfortunately I found almost all tango "revistas" from Argentina do not have RSS feeds, even though they are plugged into the news "centre" of our universe. - There are many web developers with world ambition, trying to create world wiki notes, world festival calendars, world milonga listings, etc. but has any of them become runaway leader? I mean if you are an organiser today, which 10 top sites would you immediately update so that it gets the word out most effectively? - Does anyone even have a guess as to the number of tango fans around the world? We were recently asked by a reporter to give some statistics for a story, and the best we could do was to wave our hand in the air and say "millions and millions around the world!!", even though the actual participation rate in our city was just 0.01% of adult population. I guess I am trying to understand the "big picture" of the online tango media in 2011/2012. Without this big picture, we are slowly becoming like the 5 blind men trying to describe an elephant, each having only one narrow understanding of the truth. Kace _______________________________________________ Tango-L mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/tango-l
