My reflections from the Radio Groove Experiment

A while back I joined the groove radio experiment started by Jon and Jereone it was great fun but people it broke all the social norms that I had been accustomed to in groove. People would invite friends with out checking with the others. It was like a college party with free beer that got too wild when the word got out to the “freaks”.

Ok they were not actually freaks it just started to cost too much to keep up with who each faceless name was and that made it hard to sort out their contributions to the discussion. For a while visitors to our experiment created a positive utility for each other up to a certain critical level, when the negative effects of crowding begin to outweigh the positive ones.

Then someone did something so un blog and deleted the entire space; a foreign notion to the archival nature of a long time blogger.

But it was equally alarming to me to have my messages posted to a public web site without anyone asking me if it was ok. My spelling sucked and people might think I was stupid.

That's when it hit me. You have to pay to play so I got a credit card and paid my dear friend Dave Winner 40 bucks so I could enter the free-for-all.

At first I worried about my spelling then I realized that even though the pages were out on the open web nobody cared and nobody was reading any of it so it didn't matter if my words were spelled incorrectly.

A blog is like a workspace but different. It is habit forming like journal writing. I keep a journal for my would shop.