[Reader-list] What ails the Sarai Reader List?

[punam zutshi]

Greetings!

I think the archival problem is an important one to highlight.The
Search feature for locating authors and keywords in subject headings
would be a real boon.

I am not so sure that the question of identity ( supported with
photos) bothers me. Call me old fashioned I also baulk at the listing
of emotions and other such gambits.That's great for blogspots but a
reader list?????

What is the problem with a thousand peering while one responds? Yes,
one selects the option of a direct response to a list mailer in any
case.

A quick glance at the slides of your presentation tell me that the
form is important most certainly, but is it also the case that there
genuinely is a lack of comprehension or interest in some rather than
other mails? I respond to this mail of yours as it seems to do with
Our List, but I was too mystified by your earlier postings!

 Is the list crumbling because people would rather lurk than respond
or post? Is there a profile of Live Journal Readership as compared to
the Sarai List?

Yes, but your presentation achieves something very interesting : I am
sure a lot of us will want to figure out a little more about what 
Live Journal is like!!

Punam

On 8/24/05, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> The Independent Fellows are at Sarai in Delhi for the workshop. I
> made my presentation today on how form shapes online community. For
> the sake of illustration, I picked a familiar community, the reader
> list itself.
> 
> From empirical evidence, I was aware that several readers have
> trouble keeping up with the volume of the list. I made a contrast
> with LiveJournal, another community system which manages to scale to
> a far higher volume of traffic before it becomes a burden, looking
> for things they do that the reader list could do with.
> 
> Due to time constraints, I could not go into as much detail as I'd
> have liked to. Here are my slides: http://jace.seacrow.com/misc/sarai-
> rl-lj
> 
> This has been a great opportunity and I thank everyone who was
> involved, especially those present today. This was the best response
> I've had to a presentation yet.
> 
> I will continue exploring how form shapes community and post to the
> list as appropriate.
> 
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://www.pobox.com/~jace
> 
> 
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