Livre d'Or

Thank you all for having really civilized discussions in my controversial opinions post. I really appreciate having a readership who challenge me without getting belligerent about it.

Let me follow up with a nice warm fuzzy post. I have about 250 people subscribed to this journal, and a thoroughly excellent crowd you all are. And maybe some of you would like to meet some other similarly excellent people. So, I've invented a game.

If you would like to, please comment to this post, and I'll introduce you to everybody else by giving a reason why I think you're great. Some people I know better than others, so I can't promise all my introductions will exactly encapsulate why someone might want to get to know you. You're also welcome to comment to someone else's thread and ask for a specific introduction to that person; I know some people are more confident than others about just jumping in and introducing themselves to a stranger. I am also happy to matchmake if you would like that; ask me for a recommendation of a personal journal and / or community from my circles.

And of course, feel free to repost this game in your own journal, if you think it would be a good way to make connections between some of your people. I think this could go quite well if it spreads a few hops away from here, but also worth doing even if no-one picks it up.

Separate post so I can do screened comments: I finally have a Google Wave account (thanks, afuna)! My username is rachelgb. If you want to connect to me on it, comment with your Google Wave username if you have an account, or your email address if you would like an invite. I probably won't be around on the system all that much until I have the aforementioned new computer and preferably a home internet connection.

Well, because I'm a sucker for this kind of thing, I've signed up to Friendster using [my surname]@email.com. I'm assuming that if you can demung that, you're most likely human and there's a reasonable chance you actually know me. So if you want to link to me, please feel free.

Like many such things, it's the kind of thing that only works well if lots of people, and lots of people you know, are in the system. I think I'd rather pimp it this way than send those annoying emails that effectively do the website's marketing for it.