[Web4lib] Mobenzi > Mobile-Phone-Based Empowerment

[Thomas Dowling]

On 02/01/2010 05:29 PM, Popp, Mary Pagliero wrote:
> Perhaps all of you are correct, but I have to say that the complaining takes a lot more bandwidth than just deleting the messages one does not like.  It we are honest, none of us could say that we read every WEB4LIB message we received.
> 


The issue is not bandwidth, of course.  A hundred bloggers each sending a
hundred posts a day would probably still not be a bandwidth issue, if you're
talking about fiber optics and ethernet cables.  ("If a blogger and a half can
send a post and a half in a day and half...")

The issue is the distinctly narrowband capacity of our attention and interest.
 Web4Lib succeeds because it has always aimed to be a conversation, not a
series of soapboxes for lectures or [self-]promotional material.

You call it complaining.  I consider it to be a healthy and natural way for the
community to periodically redefine the ground rules and boundaries for the
conversation.


-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowling at ohiolink.edu