Friday, January 28, 2005

Idea

I don't think it's at all worth bothering with all that for the purpose of our communication, Chris. Just my feelings though. On the other hand, it strikes me that there are no (effective) means for groups of people to communicate online, and not in real-time. Mailing lists can just get messy and annoying getting emails in your inbox all the time. This blog works, more or less, but the commenting system doesn't really lend itself to our situation. A wiki might work a bit better, but its structure would really need to be thought through carefully.

I'm thinking of a topic/conversation/thread based structure, where people can add their thoughts to it. Here's a working title for such a service: "The Big Conversation". I think it's actually quite a neat idea! Although, mailinglists do follow pretty much exactly the same scheme, except for the layout and access mechanism. Something to think about, Chris...

Oooh, I went to a snooker club this afternoon with a friend - £5 life membership, £3 an hour (with student discount) up until 7pm. Not bad! The cues and tables are excellent as well. It's called WT's, and it's on a side road on Newmarket Road just after APU (heading out of the city centre). I think you should join up James, we should have a game sometime.