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I'm quite enjoying following this conversation slowly, and also saw that you'd posted a follow-up on your own journal. I am replying here given that a key point of your comment is that you prefer to have conversations on other people's journals rather than your own, so.

I do definitely remember your taxonomy post, it's strongly informed the way I blog ever since I read it, in particular doing a lot more what-I-found / pointer posts than I used to. It does make sense that people use different sites for different functions, absolutely. I am still wishing for someone to come up with a way of coordinating across sites without being massively creepy and intrusive, because if everything gets fragmented then the high-friction sites which optimize for thoughtful interesting discussion just wither away.

It does make sense that purely pragmatically as well as emotionally, moderating is a drag for you. I remember when you mentioned that everybody else is mainly online during weekday lunchtimes, whereas you have absolutely no time for internetting then and you're mainly around at weekends when most of the internet is dead.

This also makes me think that my attempt to be a less annoying commenter on your posts has been headed in the wrong direction. I've been trying to comment more positively and make a point of actually saying so when I think your post is cool or interesting but don't have much more response than that. But actually it's probably better if I simply comment less.

Blegs, definitely, I don't love the term but I do love the idea. I am definitely in a similar position of knowing a lot because I ask my well-informed and diverse internet friends. I've made a couple of posts recently saying, I have to lead a discussion with the medical students, what should I be covering, and got some absolutely brilliant answers. Some of them are making their way into formal teaching materials, and it's giving me a real boost professionally that I can draw from a wide range of experiences and tell the students about more than just people-like-me.