[ale] Website musings

[Michael Hirsch]

On 9/2/05, Michael Still <stillwaxin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 9/2/05, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 9/2/05, aaron <aaron at pd.org> wrote:
> > > :-)
> > > Not to be a total pill, but I'm curious how would a "blog" be 
> different
> > > from the ALE Wiki that we already under-utilize?
> >
> > The wiki is for persistent information--info that has a long shelf life 
> and
> > is of long term interest. A blog is for recording/disseminating 
> information
> > of current interest.
> >
> > I like the idea of the blog to replace the klunky announcements page on
> > ale.org <http://ale.org>, but don't think it should be used to post tips 
> and hints, or ask
> > questions. The former belongs on the wiki or mailing list and the latter 
> on
> > the mailing list. At best, it would mean there are two places to look 
> for
> > information instead of one, at worst it would obsolete the mailing list. 
> We
> > don't need another way to get information out, we need better ways to
> > sort/collate/find the information we already have.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind a newsgroup gateway for the mailing list, though I find
> > that reading it in gmail is as handy as a newsgroup--maybe handier. I 
> would
> > love to have a usable archive or it, though google works pretty well for
> > that, too.
> >
> 
> http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.ale
> 
> Slick service that has nntp and rss feeds of lists. I keep ale on rss
> using my bloglines web based client.


Heyyy, that's cool. I put a link to is on the wiki :-) 

http://tomshiro.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/ALE/AleArchives
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