m&m,
I think you are right on about the way the web works. It’s just one more way to talk to some extent. It’s a legitimate form of interaction. I also think your comments on the talk are relevant.
I do, however, think that a lot of people wondered about what to do with the net, since the policy on unit sites was (and is) control, and since we generally hear so much about the dangers of the internet and so little about how to use it positively. I think this talk does say new things. That may be because the net has simply reached a critical mass at which it is simply impossible to have any control over what is out there. I remember when you had to dial into boards to post there. So it’s probably only in the last five to ten years that a talk like this makes sense. It is only in that time period that the internet became nearly unavoidable as a communications media.
Jared et al,
It may be that there needs to be a new way of linking together LDS Blogs, but I don’t know what that would be. It’s been a while since I’d looked at the actual Mormon Archipelago page, and it’s more than a grouping these days. If the range of Mormon blogging expands any time soon, it may be difficult to come up with a way to organize it. The MA started as an affiliation of a few blogs that didn’t have the readership of some of the really big LDS blogs and thought affiliation might increase exposure. Each of those blogs, it seems to me, had a distinct character. Perhaps as things expand more affiliations of like-minded blogs or blogs with similar content could be formed with the possibility that someone, perhaps MA or perhaps someone else, could list blogs in groupings rather than single blogs, so that communities develop. The problem with big communities is that people need a way to orient themselves. The question is, who has the time for such an adventure? Administration, as J points out, is much less fun than participation.
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By: Steve H
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