[mfm-list]Re: email vs. blog (was: mail list digest time lag)

[Adam Wilt]

> To the best of my knowledge, I believe this is the future of the  
> list... the blog.

That would be a pity. Email is a push medium; I get it automatically.  
A blog is a "pull"; I have to remember to go there and fetch it. And  
what happens is that I'm busy, so I don't remember or I can't be  
bothered. For example, I should by rights be reading hdforindies  
every danged day, but what winds up happening is I'll visit it  
perhaps once every two weeks, if/when I remember to (and no, don't  
tell me that RSS subs are the "solution". They aren't).

Blogs are great for those with nothing else to do other than read  
blogs (grin) but for those with competing demands they lack the  
immediacy of something automatically delivered. I'll hit a website  
for news (e.g., macintouch, nytimes, crazyapplerumors <grin>) but I  
find that I can't be bothered to deal with the slowness and  
inefficiency of webpage-based discussion lists when compared to the  
ease of email discussions.

And for announcements, like meeting announcements? An email notice is  
like the alarm clock going off; I'll notice it. If it's on a webpage  
somewhere, it's like having to look at the clock all the time... and  
who hasn't overslept that way?  :-)

Adam Wilt / filmmaker / Mountain View CA USA