Full Circle Associates

Andy Roberts of Ultralab posts a pointer to another bridging discussion, this time between blogs and Usenet. The full thread can be found here. Peter Kleiweg wrote:

I have started a blog. And then another, on language. Writing in
a blog has advantages over writing on usenet. It is a personal
space you take care for yourself, and becomes a repository to
sort your arguments. On usenet, your arguments tend to get lost
somewhere in the threads, and you end up repeating yourself. A
blog is a bit more permanent. I also think I try to compose a
blog message more coherently, take more time to write something.

I have comments enabled on my language blog, but I don't really
like it. Sure, I want to get responses, want to know I get
noted, but I don't really want to engage in a discussion in the
comment section of my blog.

What I would like in my blog is to remove the comment section,
and tell visitors of my blog the following:

- If you want to contact me personally, write to me by e-mail

- If you want to express your view and opinions about
something I write here, do so in your own blog, and if you
link to my blog entry (and use that link at least once), then
I will take notice of your writing

- If you want to have a discussion about something I wrote here,
please post a response on usenet in the following group:
europa.linguas.blogs
I am reading that newsgroup, and will respond if I like

The only tool bridging pattern I've discerned from this and other previous stuff I've linked to is the issue of personal preference for a tool for a specific type of interaction... and that these preferences appear PERSONAL. Is anyone researching this? Useability folks? What can we learn from these to apply to collaborative work situations?