The new ep of Bones triggered some talk in Procedurals and House is back next week.
Book: Captain, you mind if I say grace? Mal: Only if you say it out loud.
'Serenity'
Bureaucracy 4: Like Job. No, really, just like Job
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: Jon B, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych, msbelle, shrift, Dana, Laura
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Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2008 8:41:26 am PDT #2591 of 6786
brillig
tiggy - Apr 21, 2008 8:41:57 am PDT #2592 of 6786
I do believe in killing the messenger, you know why? Because it sends a message. ~ Damon Salvatore
Like a stock market ticker?
I love this idea. FWIW. if only it were doable!
Amy - Apr 21, 2008 8:45:14 am PDT #2593 of 6786
Because books.
Like a stock market ticker?
Couldn't we sort of do this already? Say, search on "cilantro" just to see if there are any posts about it?
Jessica - Apr 21, 2008 8:54:11 am PDT #2594 of 6786
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Like a stock market ticker?
More like a Google Alert, I think. So you could get an email whenever people were talking about which hand they hold their fork in.
Tamara - Apr 21, 2008 8:54:52 am PDT #2595 of 6786
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Riches short season was totally caused by the strike and may have killed the show dead.
Dana - Apr 21, 2008 8:55:53 am PDT #2596 of 6786
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I think the idea of tagging has also been brought up before, but aside from the technical aspect of things (I assume it would be pretty difficult to implement), I think it would start to feel like we were on the road to becoming LJ or del.icio.us or whatever.
Sophia Brooks - Apr 21, 2008 9:00:08 am PDT #2597 of 6786
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
See, for me, it isn't so much that I know what I want to talk about-- I want to see new subjects as they come up, in a somewhat timely fashion. Again, sort of impossible
Connie Neil - Apr 21, 2008 9:05:20 am PDT #2598 of 6786
brillig
It looks like we've got duelling conversational styles. One side has a topic in mind and wants to talk to Buffistas about it, and the other side wants to talk to Buffistas and wants to see what people are talking about at the time.
I suspect we're getting into "Tastes great/Less filling" terrain here.
Jesse - Apr 21, 2008 9:35:46 am PDT #2599 of 6786
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Reality has always been the fastest-moving of the TV threads, but recently it's also the only one where none of the shows discussed in there were forced off the air for several months.
There's more of a watch-n-post aspect, too -- which I felt like people (who weren't participating) hated in Natter.
DavidS - Apr 21, 2008 9:40:55 am PDT #2600 of 6786
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
See, for me, it isn't so much that I know what I want to talk about-- I want to see new subjects as they come up, in a somewhat timely fashion. Again, sort of impossible.
It might not be possible to automate it, but you could hive mind it.
In fact, this would be worthy of verbing Sophia.
To wit: people periodically drop a note in Natter with a Sophia at the top and sum up recent discussions in threads where they're active.
Not unlike the periodic requests from people who used to ask for a summary of what was going on in Spoilers.
Since I'm active in Music and Literary and Comedies I could just make a small civic gesture and sum up recent conversations there:
Sophia: Lots (lots!) of bandom talk in the music thread with much squeeage and love for My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy and Cobra Starship. In Literary, I whine about my lack of reviews and Cor pats me on the back. In Comedy, some Office talk, and surprisingly little 30 Rock.
Like that. Just a little cultural shift and people who are in Great Write Way can alert for particular memes and people in Boxed Set can run down the new Torchwood speculation (perhaps with links). Etc.
Simple, easy, no-coding required.