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I just wanted to pop in and basically spit out a quick, "Yeah, what sammyboy said." There's a good deal more sloshing about in the backbrain but frankly at this point I find it difficult to muster up the energy to contribute much. And that is as much affected by my increasingly dim feelings toward online communities in general as it is the present snail's pace of the 'lith.
Chewing on the idea of unpacking that a little, but I'm afraid that, once unwrapped, the ideas would be either too bittersweetly sentimental or too scarily obsessive for most to enjoy. Short version: I've invested a great deal of interest and energy into online communities of astonishing variety, content, sincerity and successfulness, and at this time nearly all of those communities are withering and being replaced with what I feel is the much less effective, more impersonal and yet more invasive, honestly uninspiring MySpace Rentaboard Social Networking (Now In Three Dee!) model. So I spend most of my time online prodding and pruning my pet projects back into a life that only vaguely resembles their former incarnations, and popping back in here with a sigh and a smile whenever a thread I like has been bumped up, whether I've personally added to it or not.
I actually like the slow pace, but eventually I reckon it'll grind to a halt. Quite a shame though. Of the little gardens I've watched and been a part of, I'd rate 'lith as one of the most successful. MetaFilter works somewhat as an Otherlith for myself, but really, there's no other not-space out there that's quite the same. |
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