A new AFT/RABT platform?
Sean_Q_
will inevitably dwindle... could we use something like this and attract
new Tolkien fans, not as a newsgroup replacement but as an enhancement?
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/09/surfing-the-google-wave.ars
SQ
Stan Brown
No Web-based system for me, and nothing run by Google.
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Tolkien letters FAQ:
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Tamf Moo
> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:05:13 -0700 from Sean_Q_ <no....@no.spam>:
>> Usenet and the AFT/RABT community live on... but without new members
>> will inevitably dwindle... could we use something like this and attract
>> new Tolkien fans, not as a newsgroup replacement but as an enhancement?
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/09/surfing-the-google-wave.ars
>
> No Web-based system for me, and nothing run by Google.
heh. i just clicked on that link, and am now wondering if Sean doesn't
feel the same way. or even Google...
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tamf
I see two Gandalfs and church bell. And two half lions chasing
a bull rat each over the lake. (Rorschach tests seen by "Illogic")
Öjevind Lång
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> Fri, 02 Oct 2009 23:05:13 -0700 from Sean_Q_ <no....@no.spam>:
>>
>> Usenet and the AFT/RABT community live on... but without new members
>> will inevitably dwindle... could we use something like this and attract
>> new Tolkien fans, not as a newsgroup replacement but as an enhancement?
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/09/surfing-the-google-wave.ars
>
> No Web-based system for me, and nothing run by Google.
I agree.
�jevind
Troels Forchhammer
spoke these staves:
That definitely looks interesting -- I like the idea of
collaborative editing.
I am concerned that one can edit other people's texts, their
'blips,' and even if it appears that it supports threading, it would
require a great deal of discipline by the contributors (and possibly
also its own kind of netiquette). For me, personally, I wouldn't
like the direct, key-by-key, mode -- in many cases I can take days
to compose an answer to an interesting post (in this case it is only
a few hours since I pressed 'reply').
At first glance I think I'd very much like to try this out, but I
think that I'd prefer to use it with some control of whom can edit
my posts -- I think one of the reasons why usenet works is that the
individual message is inviolate; even if some people will misquote
you, the original message is always there for all to see (even if
you use the X-No-Archive header there is usually some private
archive that has the message).
Overall I think that Google Wave looks very promising, and I will
definitely try it out once it opens up to the public, but I don't
think that it is a place that invites to the kind of openness and
inclusiveness that we have in usenet -- I would see it rather as a
medium where a group, smaller or greater, could retreat to work out
some kind of common understanding. as such it might be a really fine
addition to our discussions here.
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Troels Forchhammer
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Please put [AFT], [RABT] or 'Tolkien' in subject.
Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
- /Reaper Man/ (Terry Pratchett)
TT Arvind
Excellent! Everybody, look closely at the Google logo in that
article, and you'll see how subtly they're trying to tempt us over.
Precioussssssss...
--
Arvind
Tamf Moo
>> http://arstechnica.com/open-source/guides/2009/09/surfing-the-google-...
>
> Excellent! Everybody, look closely at the Google logo in that
> article, and you'll see how subtly they're trying to tempt us over.
> Precioussssssss...
i sense trickery. isn't there supposed to be just one of those things?
TT Arvind
> i sense trickery. isn't there supposed to be just one of those things?
In the immortal words of Che Guevaragorn: "¡Abajo el Único! ¡Viva los
Multiplos!"
--
Arvind
Pseudonymus al-Faqha'ter III
And now the page cannot be displayed, which suggests that it has
become invisible. Very sneaky, indeed.
Öjevind Lång
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> Stan Brown wrote:
[snip]
>> No Web-based system for me, and nothing run by Google.
>
> heh. i just clicked on that link, and am now wondering if Sean doesn't
> feel the same way. or even Google...
Anyway, who would want to employ the services of an outfit which calls
itself "arse technica"?
�jevind
TT Arvind
> Anyway, who would want to employ the services of an outfit which calls
> itself "arse technica"?
Arrs technica: The website for the technologically minded pirate.
--
Arvind
Tamf Moo
>> Anyway, who would want to employ the services of an outfit which calls
>> itself "arse technica"?
>
> Arrs technica: The website for the technologically minded pirate.
Ears technica: where would movies about elves be without them?
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tamf
(still in the forest, i bet.)
Raven
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>>> Anyway, who would want to employ the services of an outfit which calls
>>> itself "arse technica"?
>> Arrs technica: The website for the technologically minded pirate.
> Ears technica: where would movies about elves be without them?
Oars technica: how to refine your rowing skills.
Annank�kai.
Öjevind Lång
meddelandet news:4acdffa3$0$56796$edfa...@dtext02.news.tele.dk...
[snip]
>>>> Anyway, who would want to employ the services of an outfit which calls
>>>> itself "arse technica"?
>
>>> Arrs technica: The website for the technologically minded pirate.
>
>> Ears technica: where would movies about elves be without them?
>
> Oars technica: how to refine your rowing skills.
Ourse technica: how to deal with a Francophone bear.
�jevind
Taemon
> "Raven" <jon.lennart.be...@mail.its.in.danmark> skrev i
> meddelandet news:4acdffa3$0$56796$edfa...@dtext02.news.tele.dk...
>>>>> Anyway, who would want to employ the services of an outfit which
>>>>> calls itself "arse technica"?
>>>> Arrs technica: The website for the technologically minded pirate.
>>> Ears technica: where would movies about elves be without them?
>> Oars technica: how to refine your rowing skills.
> Ourse technica: how to deal with a Francophone bear.
Urse technica: Phear the 1337 techniques.
T.
Derek Broughton
Arras technica: the manufacture of wall hangings (probably also dating to
1337, since the word hasn't been used much since...)
Ouse technica: where to practice Oars technica.
--
derek
Troels Forchhammer
About Google Wave:
> Usenet and the AFT/RABT community live on... but without new
> members will inevitably dwindle... could we use something like
> this and attract new Tolkien fans, not as a newsgroup replacement
> but as an enhancement?
I now have a Google Wave account, and I think it might be a good thing
for many purposes, but as with any other platform, there will be first
a time of chaos as everybody learns the tricks. Then a new . . .
wavetiqette? . . . will emerge and there will be a time of great
productivity and progress. Then the spammers will kick in and public
waves will degenerate . . .
Still, I think Google Wave can be a good supplement to other fora (and
I've already had occasion to mention AFT and RABT at least once ;-)
--
Troels Forchhammer <troelsfo(a)googlewave.com>
Valid e-mail is <troelsfo(a)gmail.com>
Please put [AFT], [RABT] or 'Tolkien' in subject.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no
basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power
derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some
farcical aquatic ceremony.
- /Monty Python and the Holy Grail/
Jette Goldie
> In message <news:ha6pht$1fe$1...@aioe.org> Sean_Q_ <no....@no.spam>
> spoke these staves:
>
> About Google Wave:
>
>> Usenet and the AFT/RABT community live on... but without new
>> members will inevitably dwindle... could we use something like
>> this and attract new Tolkien fans, not as a newsgroup replacement
>> but as an enhancement?
>
> I now have a Google Wave account, and I think it might be a good thing
> for many purposes, but as with any other platform, there will be first
> a time of chaos as everybody learns the tricks. Then a new . . .
> wavetiqette? . . . will emerge and there will be a time of great
> productivity and progress. Then the spammers will kick in and public
> waves will degenerate . . .
>
> Still, I think Google Wave can be a good supplement to other fora (and
> I've already had occasion to mention AFT and RABT at least once ;-)
>
I have a Google Wave account too. Not enough contacts however.
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