OK. As for your question about why I like this format better than emails:
Speed, for sure--threads here on the Tree can be as immediate as chatrooms sometimes--and fun (see the ridiculously huge--for us--Christo thread) and I don't have a recordkeeping headache in the form of 100 emails I have to decide whether to keep or delete. I'm finding not all the empyre emails in my inbox made it into the archive, and the panelists had some interesting sidebar conversation, so I have to slog through that before deleting the empyre stuff I know was archived.
Plus if things get too weird I can post a heartwarming picture of a baby-saving dog.
Seriously, though, being able to post pictures and sound when you're talking about pictures and sound is an amazing thing, almost as incredible as that victrola thing I hear they have that stores music and allows you to play it back whenever you want to hear it. I'm being sarcastic, but I don't see how this is subject to debate. You invite artists to talk about their work, in a format everyone understands from the outset doesn't allow pictures or sound, then when the artists post links to same you say "Wah, you're not amusing me--I don't want to click links--I want you to justify your work in an arena where you can't completely explain yourself!"
Sure, we panelists knew what the ground rules were, but who would have anticipated comment on blogging artists linking to their respective pages like it was weird or something?
And yes, one has to have image-posting privileges to post on the Tree, but if you gave me a URL I'd upload the image and post it so we could talk about it right here on the page.
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Plus if things get too weird I can post a heartwarming picture of a baby-saving dog.
Seriously, though, being able to post pictures and sound when you're talking about pictures and sound is an amazing thing, almost as incredible as that victrola thing I hear they have that stores music and allows you to play it back whenever you want to hear it. I'm being sarcastic, but I don't see how this is subject to debate. You invite artists to talk about their work, in a format everyone understands from the outset doesn't allow pictures or sound, then when the artists post links to same you say "Wah, you're not amusing me--I don't want to click links--I want you to justify your work in an arena where you can't completely explain yourself!"
Sure, we panelists knew what the ground rules were, but who would have anticipated comment on blogging artists linking to their respective pages like it was weird or something?
And yes, one has to have image-posting privileges to post on the Tree, but if you gave me a URL I'd upload the image and post it so we could talk about it right here on the page.
- tom moody 6-09-2005 11:45 am