Second Class Content
One of those hidden little comments tags below hides some insightful thoughts from Erik (of Erik's Geekfun Emergency), on the usefulness of blogs for discussion. His "second-class" comment seemed right on the mark, followed by a great bickering-scholars image. In honor of that sage commentary that no one will ever see, I'm upgrading his remarks from the second-class comments cabin to the first-class compartment, in front of the curtain:
"I think blogs are a poor place to carry on a discussion. By design, they put the point of view of the individual blogger first.
Discussions in comments are second class content.
Discussions carried on between blogs take on a kind of stilted quality that kind of resembles scholars arguing through journal publications."
Based on his comments and a few others'--and my preliminary data in so far--I guess this means I'll begin to let go of the discussion idea in general, though I'm still very interested in getting feedback on my dueling-leads question here. (If clicking on "here" takes you there, it means I learned how to make a button to zip you down there). It seems that maybe this sort of polling thing--as opposed to a free-form discussion--may work to some extent. I've gotten three new responses this morning, and so far they're extremely interesting, so this is great. Once I get a few more, I'll start to summarize here in the main area, though I'm a little leery of influencing people by presenting the votes before you see the three leads.
NEW EDIT:
(First off, I've erased the stuff here about linking. I think I figured out how to make it work since then, so I've put in the direct links and removed all the questions about it.)
Erik saw me pick up his comments, and has since expanded on this discussion on his own blog. Hmmmmm. Now we're linking back and forth about it, so I guess you can sort of get a discussion of sorts going that way.
1:09:43 PM 
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