For a long time I thought there was some cabal of cronies who collaborated
through IRC, or that it was elitist. I'm not a codemonkey or any other kind
of really tech-savvy person, so I just assumed IRC would be some archiac and
complex edifice that wasn't worth the time and effort it would take to
learn.
But that's not it at all. It's really easy to use, not too much different
say, from having to download the AIM client and use that (I use Colloquy on
an iBook).
As to the cabal idea...certainly not on the open forums. Mostly it's just
useless social jibber-jabber. I think once I got some help on a project, but
it wasn't something I couldn't have gotten done if I'd gone to the user's
regular talk.
The key difference is immediacy (of course). The speed of conversation has
good qualities (get things done and find out what that ugly new banner is
fast) and bad ones (people speak before thinking, and most of it has nothing
to do with building an encyclopedia).
On 10/23/07, Gary Kirk <gary.kirk(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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On 23/10/2007, Nick
<heligolandwp(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
Could it be that many users simply can't get on IRC at their place of
work,
by perchance ?
On 23/10/2007, Phoenix wiki <phoenix.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I've noticed that a lot of wikipedia users don't like irc. I was
wondering
why. Is it just because it's not as
transparent?
Phoenix 15
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