[Reader-list] What ails the Sarai Reader List?

[punam zutshi]

Hello Kiran,

I thought I was gamely offering feedback ... Many thanks for
classifying me as more or less resistant to virtual progress!!

You have not actually shared what seems classified information about
the critique of the list.Why the flood of other names of sites?Social
Networking, what's that?? I thought we were also speaking of reader
lists with a specific aim.

Just wanted to say that I am a 'low end' user compared to you.(You've
been immortalised by TOI ).

But feel that what Sarai seems to offer is the participation in 'real
space' as well, which you were glad to have in the Independent Fellows
meet.So the lack of interaction in one sphere is adequately met in
others?

Punam

On 9/7/05, Kiran Jonnalagadda <jace at pobox.com> wrote:
> On 27-Aug-05, at 3:13 PM, punam zutshi wrote:
> 
> > I want to as a 'consumer' want to answer things of concern to me:
> > Is the load of the Sarai Reader List too high? No.
> > Does the flood of e mails by month end bother me? No.
> > How does one deal with the list? Does one want it more orderly
> > accessible fashion? I see little problem in the exercise of a degree
> > of judgement and selection.Why should deletion of messages be a
> > problem? I would like to receive whatever is posted and do the
> > screening myself.
> 
> Dear Punam,
> 
> Thanks again. One of my concerns with migrating of the Reader List to
> a new platform was that there would always be users who liked the
> existing setup and aren't convinced about the benefits of the new. As
> you have expressed, I was right about at least this bit. :-) However,
> not everyone is happy with the list's current state, and whatever
> solution is adopted must be able to satisfy both parties adequately.
> 
> I was at Sarai when I made the last post and had discussed the issue
> with Vivek and Monica. I'm in Bangalore now and continuing the
> conversation over email. In my proposal (December) I had mentioned
> that I was looking for a community to test my observations with.
> Vivek suggested the Reader List. Sarai has been cooperative and
> accommodating with this process, and I must thank them for this.
> 
> I do not have a solution at hand. So far, I've only identified
> patterns in communications in different communities. I haven't
> studied them all yet. For example, Ryze is a social networking site,
> much like Orkut, LinkedIn, Tribe, Multiply and a gazillion others,
> but Ryze has a buzz to it that the others lack. It's not that Ryze
> works because it has all the people -- Orkut is also heavily
> populated. There is something about the Ryze interface that makes it
> tick, that I haven't quite understood yet.
> 
> How am I going to adapt these observations to an email based list
> without disrupting the existing functioning of the list? I don't
> know. But it's a worthy challenge, don't you think?
> 
> --
> Kiran Jonnalagadda
> http://www.pobox.com/~jace
> 
> 
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