Comments on: participatory geekiness /2003/09/participatory-geekiness/ Sarah Allen's reflections on internet software and other topics Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:01:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.1 By: Andrew Wooldridge /2003/09/participatory-geekiness/#comment-72 Thu, 02 Oct 2003 21:01:45 +0000 /wordpress/?p=52#comment-72 I share that feeling. I started out emailing friends and family all these “look at this” or “this is a cool link” emails, and discovered that blogging was a much more efficient way to satisfy that desire to pass on “neat” stuff. Plus it’s gratifying in that it’s almost like being at “amateur night” at a nightclub and you get to be the only person up there – you can have a “captive” audience so to speak.

I think alot of folks who originally created general websites had this desire, and blogs seem to have evolved from the need to simplify the process.

]]> By: Marc Canter /2003/09/participatory-geekiness/#comment-71 Wed, 03 Sep 2003 15:08:14 +0000 /wordpress/?p=52#comment-71 Ah yes – the old “kick the tires” syndrome. Lots of discussions nowadays about tracking comments, RSS feeds that aggregate comments around topics and whatnot. Just a simple notification that someone has left a comment would be cool. Joi has a feed – which combines all his comments and Trackback – so I can follow the threads. Ok – #1 down, 9 to go.

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