Note that the interpretation of "far more activity" can be turned around,
so to speak. If one wants to monitor the medium to be notified of rarities,
seeing far more activity consisting of notifications of postings followed
by notifications of photo postings followed by notifications of each of
multiple comments will hardly seem a blessing. The phrase "drowning in
data" could take on a whole new meaning.....

Bill Heck

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Haans Petruschke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> What prompted my original post on this subject was a milestone event.  That
> is the posting of an extreme rarity on the Birding Ohio facebook page
> *before* it was posted on the listserve.  To me this is an interesting
> signal.
>
> While I would imagine the listserve will be around for a while, I think we
> will see a shift over time as people find what medium best suits their
> needs and abilities.
>
> Today I posted the possible Golden-crowned Sparrow report to the Ohio
> Rarities FB page and there were quickly several responses from people who
> could see the pictures better than I could on my phone.  In general
> BirdingOhio has far more activity than the listserve perhaps because it is
> far more chatty.
>
> What we want and what actually happens may be very different and something
> no one can control.
>
> Haans
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Paul Hurtado <[log in to unmask]
> >wrote:
>
> > Are there too many birding forums in Ohio?  Is activity on this listserv
> > slowing down because people are turning to the Facebook Group instead?
> >
> > The data so far say "no:
> >
> >
> http://mostlybirds.wordpress.com/2012/10/19/too-many-birding-forums-in-ohio/
> >
> > To compare activity in the Facebook group vs. this listserv, I noted a
> few
> > milestones in growth of the Birding Ohio group (by searching for keyword
> > "members" and noting dates and membership sizes mentioned) and I noted
> the
> > number of posts per month on the OHIO-BIRDS archives over the past 6
> > years.  You can see a plot of those data at the link above.
> >
> > So far, having more places to discuss birds and birding simply means more
> > discussions about birds.
> >
> > Good birding,
> > Paul Hurtado
> >
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