Pull vs. push strategies for sharing knowledge

Yesterday I shared my blogging experience with a colleague. She asked why people would blog ideas rather than share them in a community. When I realised a couple of things:

• Blog is mine. I feel free to express myself there. I capture ideas and make them availiable for others. It’s their choice to visit or subscribe.
• I don’t have this comfort with e-mail or on-line communities: often I’m not sure how relevant is the message, and I don’t want to overload others with that.

Recently someone wrote about it, but my own feeling came only yesterday.

Archived version of this entry is available at http://blog.mathemagenic.com/2002/08/29.html#a194; comments are here.

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