Posted by lon [ 69.28.12.193 ] on December 24, 2005 at 19:50:05:

In Reply to: Re: Has Ed Dell redeemed himself? posted by manualblock on December 24, 2005 at 10:47:56:

I can't say that I picked up on the hobby of speakerbuilding
from the net. My first contact with new speaker designs not
found in kits was from audioXpress-- or Speakerbuilder mag
back in those days.

But I've maintained the inerest through groups like this and
Full Range Driver Forum and AudioDIY (much less so with that one.)

From the early days of Usenet and email I always felt there was the
possibility of community with these computing devices. I was not
disappointed in the early days for having found a few Usenet
innovators, one of whome makde a newsgroup called alt.fifty-plus.friends. I cite that because there was genuine community there-- and of an international nature. For the
ones in extreme age and housebound it was and is their
virtual home. I have lost touch with that but it's still there.

Far as hard information goes, if it weren't for streaming audio
to listen to www.pacifica.org, Democracy Now and Flashpoints
I would feel truly deprived and thrown back into the netherworld
of network news rather than alternate views which give a broader
picture of opinion.

But to your point, I care nothing for so-called blogs. The
information I seek comes from actual authors at the sources
mentioned and also the Progressive press.

Here at ART and a few other spots the topic stays focussed
pretty much and the casual discussions that develop around
these 'general and music' topics are quite often a way of learning
something new.

Regards search engines, what is needed is an open source coded
search program not involved with the adwords concept of
Google which allow a more legitimate and time consuming and
visually fatiguing way of getting answers to things.
It works pretty well in speaker discussions. But in Linux...
don't get me started.

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