4 ms·
I really appreciated this blog post. At first I thought it was going to be a Scoble-style 'I got my first moderatorial slap and now my blogger ego is bruised' b
by crux 16y ago
I really appreciated this blog post. At first I thought it was going to be a Scoble-style 'I got my first moderatorial slap and now my blogger ego is bruised' blogger poutathon, but raganwald clearly delineates between the sort of bonding, community building social sites that he prefers (and might have acted as though he was using), and the content-focused, at times unprecious with other people's writing repository that wikipedia or Quora are aiming for. Quora is so much more obviously social than wikipedia, which I think gives a lot of people the impression that it's more like the former and less like the latter. That might be a problem for them. But I don't think that the inherent lack of sanctity for any given user's contributions is a problem. I think it's a feature.
- billswift 16y agoI have avoided Quora because it seems to combine the drawbacks of Wikipedia with the drawbacks of social sites. It has the lack of respect for contributors of Wikipedia and the lack of respect for reality of social sites. ADDED: My time is limited and I heed to apply it how I think it will be most useful. Since my major interest is in learning, I have been reducing my internet usage back toward books anyway.