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Aug. 22nd, 2007 11:20 amas commented on perlick's blog :
Community: CSUA (Computer Science Undergrad Association at UC Berkeley)
Media spaces: wall, nwrite, motd, irc
Comments: A small student group with their own UNIX box (called soda), the CSUA used the builtin UNIX utilities to communicate amongst themselves. They modified wallall and write to add more functionality, and they added a motd.public which was world writable and was concatenated to the regular motd on the machine. There was also a mailing list, but most conversation took place on wall and the motd. Later on, when a group of friends wanted to be able to talk amongst themselves in a slightly more intimate space than wall, one of them wrote his own chat program (called "hoserchat") that ran on the machine; this was later replaced by an irc server running on a CSUA alumnus' machine. Today, us old fogies still login to soda and use wall and motd, but the current CSUA members are off somewhere newfangled i guess...
Community: SF Bay Area lindy hop / swing dancing
Media spaces: email lists, web, real world
Comments: Events are posted on email lists and webpages, but mostly this community is entirely real world. Individuals keep up with each other in a variety of ways, but if you don't go out dancing, you can't feel like you're still a part of the community.
Community: Stargaze
Media spaces: email list, real world
Comments: Most communication outside of real world gathering is via the mailing list.
Livejournal is not used as a community forum at all for me, but I use it to keep up with folks from all different parts of my life. Other social networking sites I mainly only visit when I get notifications that somebody has pinged me or wants to friend me or whatnot. Livejournal is the only place I really hang out. I guess I just don't really get all the New Ways. :)
Community: CSUA (Computer Science Undergrad Association at UC Berkeley)
Media spaces: wall, nwrite, motd, irc
Comments: A small student group with their own UNIX box (called soda), the CSUA used the builtin UNIX utilities to communicate amongst themselves. They modified wallall and write to add more functionality, and they added a motd.public which was world writable and was concatenated to the regular motd on the machine. There was also a mailing list, but most conversation took place on wall and the motd. Later on, when a group of friends wanted to be able to talk amongst themselves in a slightly more intimate space than wall, one of them wrote his own chat program (called "hoserchat") that ran on the machine; this was later replaced by an irc server running on a CSUA alumnus' machine. Today, us old fogies still login to soda and use wall and motd, but the current CSUA members are off somewhere newfangled i guess...
Community: SF Bay Area lindy hop / swing dancing
Media spaces: email lists, web, real world
Comments: Events are posted on email lists and webpages, but mostly this community is entirely real world. Individuals keep up with each other in a variety of ways, but if you don't go out dancing, you can't feel like you're still a part of the community.
Community: Stargaze
Media spaces: email list, real world
Comments: Most communication outside of real world gathering is via the mailing list.
Livejournal is not used as a community forum at all for me, but I use it to keep up with folks from all different parts of my life. Other social networking sites I mainly only visit when I get notifications that somebody has pinged me or wants to friend me or whatnot. Livejournal is the only place I really hang out. I guess I just don't really get all the New Ways. :)
