Mailing-lists vs Blogs
March 20th, 2002
Since Sam posted his essay about blogs and collaboration, I keep thinking about why and what is the difference and most important if it is one at all between blogs and regular mailing-lists.
It is and it isn't. In blog based collaboration there is no commitment. You launch you idea/plan and everybody is welcomed to join in. If somebody is in the mood it will happen. But the same is true with mailing lists and lurkers.
What comes is more interesting and this is the reason I think there is no difference. Once you started getting involved everybody expects you would carry on. This is true for blog as for mailing list based collaboration. So, once things gets rolling there is no difference.
Still the entry is smoother and less intrusive, therefore more likely to happen. Every mailing lists has it's old, wise and active guys if you have an itch you might not address the list not to bother the active community, one you've got a blog things are different. You can let it out. In the worst case scenario nothing bad will happen (nobody will read it).
Once you've got committed to something in a mailing-list life can be
harsh. Politics it's not uncommon there and since the list have
usually a purpose every one feels it has to stand on one or the other
side. You can not have the freedom to do something different than the
"democratic committee" voted since that is forking, and for some reason
forking is bad. Hoverer this seems to be different on a blog. Probably
because there is no committee 
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rcs.datashed.net & euro.weblogs.com
Yesterday it worked perfectly, today "Radio" didn't upstreamed. The event message displayed in the logs is: Can't upstream because "Can't evaluate the expression because the name "urllist" hasn't been defined.
Had to do again the whole process, which is ok but my old id (51)
changed, now 45 which is not that ok anymore 
Now I found out that 45
wasn't even an empty one. Seem that RCS gave me an id which was already
of somebody else. Ups. Now what to do ?
I have the feeling that http://euro.weblogs.com is broken.
Microsoft warns of Java security hole in Windows . Who is using applets anymore! I though they died long time ago, "Netscape", "Microsoft" and Sun took care of that.
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