INSP is toast. Bob is gone...
Does that mean that we can type "fuck" in our posts now?
Hey, communities like this are the second killer app of the
Internet and *this one would be of great value to a larger
interest (like CNBC). Why INSP didn't take this software,
and their obvious success at community management and
become community management services oriented, as companies
with weaker software have been doing for years, I don't
know (two different offshoots of The Well for instance are
out there and meeting the payroll.
Ten years ago, back in the late '80s/early '90s, I was a
part of community building/management and networked
community (DOS BBS) software development. I'm proud to have
built an amateur network from 5 BBSs to close to 1,500 in
about 18 months, which became at the time second in size
(distantly) to Fidonet, directly before I abruptly
disappeared into the redwoods (AD/HD) for 3 years with a
blonde, Nurse/Deadhead with nearly perfect breasts ...whom
I later married. <g>
Prior to that (pre 1990), I was part of a small community
of single parents, first on Prodigy and later on GEnie
after Prodigy threw us and a couple other conspirator
groups off for abusing the mail system, which wasn't
intended for such creative use (which didn't fit *P's
business plan.
In the aggregate of my experience with virtual community
(to say nothing of flame wars <g>) it's my belief that WWW
virtual community isn't going to be going down the .com
tubes like some eCard IPO. We won't be shrugging our
shoulders at some no longer in service html message from SI
and instead zoning into Bloomberg or Nickelodian in it's
place.
Clearly though, we, and this software are in need of a new
home apart from these bozos. We need new bozos! <g>
-JCJ |
