Stowe Boyd and I have been engaged in a small dialogue (that we’re both too busy to have in detail) about site-visit-mapping tools… and some of the user-interface frustrations inherent in the process.
But Stowe and I, both IM junkies and fairly proficient bloggers (Stowe much more so than me), found ourselves falling back to the least-common-denominator of, you guessed it, email… perfectly understandible in the context, i.e. it works, from anywhere/everywhere, is fast, and is ‘good enough’. Yet it still doesn’t feel right.
SO (now addressing Stowe and anyone else who cares to eavesdrop), it seems to me that we should think about how to get the duelling blogs stuff going again (see also here and especially here), and how to seamlessly bootstrap/integrate organically from quick-IM back and forth, a few emails, a little Skype, phone, FlashMeeting, a few blogs-with-comments, some blog-trackback-stuff, and then let the conversation GROW as other people hop on board and spin around a few ideas and themes; there’s a thin borderline between what I want to preserve and what I want to throw away as ephemeral; and we ought to push on that… I know that GUSH and your (Stowe’s) ‘Nerdvana‘ ideas were heading in this direction, but what happened? Have we dropped the ball, or are we just too busy? What are other people doing about this?
Yow… how can I even tag this sensibly: it covers so many topics? Well, I’ll just assume I want to find it again one day… here goes:
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