For generating content, Rick's suggestion about
edited versions of on-line discussion sounds good to me too. It would solve the
problem of chasing people for copy, it would ensure that the points of the
on-line discussions don't get lost in the criss-crossing maze of voices as they
do now, and it would provide a welcome opportunity for subsequent discussion of
those ideas for people like me because usually, by the time I figure out what
the topic is the first time, it's not the topic anymore. And maybe once people
know their ideas will eventually be sorted into some kind of order, and that
it's OK to be disorderly the first time around, there will be more contributions
to the original discussions. With luck the problem could become too much copy,
instead of not enough.
