Several of you have complained that I'm posting so much that good threads are falling off the front of the page before their time. Well, how about if I start a regular post cataloguing good threads you might have missed?
Yesterday's Localism and its discontents post was one of the most popular we've had here in a long time -- and the thread it inspired was truly, well, inspired. If you go back and read nothing else, make it that one.
Also of note:
Education reform and civil rights -- about how out of wedlock childbearing is the problem facing educational reform that nobody wants to talk about.
@teenager.com -- How teenagers are allowing themselves to be conquered by technology, turning themselves uncommunicative, except through mediation.
What makes for a livable city? -- Is it spectacular monuments and designer bridges, or meat-and-potatoes stuff like code enforcement? Boring middle-class people, who make up the backbone of any successful city, require decent, boring order. Cities forget that at their peril.
Religion that works -- about the proper role that social utility should play in evaluating a religion. Is it enough to say a theology is true if it doesn't change anybody's life? Is there more to religious truth than mere propositions?
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I'm with P and hattio: longer tails, please. Perhaps each tail could last the length of that month.
I could sum up a whole year of this guy's posts with the following:
The culture is going to hell, boo hoo whine whine whine.
What a broken record. It's as if he actually thinks that there was some sort of "golden age" back there somewhere.
I agree that a 'best of' and longer tails (maybe extend it to 15 or 20 instead of 10) are a good idea.
Also, if someone does search on the tags and belatedly comments on a post, say a month later, perhaps that post could show up under a 'recently updated' section of the sidebar.
FWIW, usenet is a good model for this sort of thing. It works and has been around for ages.
Several of you have complained that I'm posting so much that good threads are falling off the front of the page before their time.
I think the problem is you're just writing too darn much stuff. Don't you sleep, dude? Meals? Cups of tea with Mrs. D.?
Hi Rod,
The "education reform" link actually goes to the "localism" post. Can you fix? Thanks!
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