Intra-active blog

Ok, Will Richardson did what I was trying to do, but better and more thoroughly. Not surprising, that.  The bottom line is that trying to follow a conversation that’s split up liek this is darned hard to do.  It’s brain-stretching.
The question I still have is, is this medium fundamentally any different?  Is there something unique about [...]

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I commented on Alan’s site that a conversation distributed across several blogs is difficult to track.  It’s like having a houseful of kids, all of whom want to talk to you at the same time.  Alan replied that “real-world” conversations are distributed and unstructured, so we should not impose artificial structures on them.
I don’t agree. [...]

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David has some ideas: http://davidwarlick.com/2cents/2005/08/15/four-reasons-why-the-blogsphere-might-make-a-better-professional-collaborative-environment-than-discussion-forums/#comment-170
Alan chimes in: http://jade.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/cdb/2005/08/16/distributed-conversations/
Will’s has some more to say: http://www.weblogg-ed.com/2005/08/17#a3894 
(I found David’s original post I’m not quite sure how, as I only just sibscribed to his feed.  From there I think I went to Wills’ site, where I saw the link to Alan’s.)
 

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