RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

Not trying to be a nitpicker.  Just curious what she meant.  I didn't 
have that conversation a long, long time ago.  Sorry if I came off as 
nitpicky.

chris


Bo Williams wrote:
> Quit being such a nitpicker, Rossi. Should Margaret have said she's
> been running "Internet communities" for seventeen years, then*? AOL,
> CompuServe, BBS, UseNate... most of the communities that started there
> transitioned to the web and maintained continuity, so it's easy to see
> how someone would call that contiguous chunk of time "running a
> website".
>
> Bo
>
> * from the best of my memory of a conversation we had a long, long
> time ago, this is what Margaret is talking about
>
> On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 09:45:19 -0500, Chris Rossi
> <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com> wrote:
>
> > You were running a website in 1988?  Do tell.  I was surfing BBSes in
> > 1988 but nothing resembling the WWW.  It looks like the first stab at an
> > HTTP protocol was in 1991, by Tim Berners-Lee:
> >
> > http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Classic.html
> >
> > rossi
> >
> > Margaret Campbell wrote:
> >
> > > Mmm.  Are you suggesting I should take this on?
> > >
> > > Just because I've run a come one, come all website for 17 years?
> > >
> > > Depends on what they're paying. [g]
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 17:28:52 -0800 (PST), Chris Calloway
> > > <ifoufo AT yahoo.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > --- Margaret Campbell <margaretc AT gmail.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > > Lovely.
> > > > >
> > > > > One can always hope that a competent weblogger will
> > > > > take it over.
> > > >
> > > > Well, you can always post a comment to the blog
> > > > suggesting that. It might lend something if you
> > > > include just what you believe to be incompetent in the
> > > > current incarnation. Be sensitive that a) the
> > > > operators are the hired help, not the political base,
> > > > b) at least one of them is highly respected in the
> > > > leftie political blogging field nationwide, and c)
> > > > some of them actually play in bands you've likely been
> > > > to see.
> > > >
> > > > Although, I think competent and blogger are mutually
> > > > exclusive.
> > > >
> > > > The site is running of a content management system
> > > > (CMS). It's running off a grassroots promoted CMS
> > > > specifically constructed for progressive political
> > > > movements. As such, grassroots accessibility is
> > > > emphasized over competence. There are many of these
> > > > nationwide. Most of them popped out of the Dean
> > > > campaign, which itself had about four different ones
> > > > in operation at any one time in Burlington. The one
> > > > NCDP installed is the one with the most critical mass
> > > > behind it or the most hype, I can't decide which. The
> > > > blog part of it is an add-on component.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not really fond of it. My experience is that
> > > > competent CMSes won't even include a blog plug-in.
> > > > There's fissure in the CMS community over things like
> > > > whether blogs are CMS subsets, whether blogs make
> > > > acceptable substitutes for CMSes in some instances,
> > > > whether blogs can be super powered unto CMSes, whether
> > > > blogs are even worth bringing under a CMS umbrella,
> > > > and what blog models are democratic, if any.
> > > >
> > > > 3
> > > > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
> > > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> > --
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>
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