http://www.newsome.org/2006/01/are-message-boards-old-school/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/01/are-message-boards-old-school/comment-page-1/#comment-5012 Ed Kohler Thu, 26 Jan 2006 20:27:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=2613#comment-5012 Messageboards (or forums) definitely play a different role than Blogs. The biggest difference is in the organization of information and the community participation in creating threads. Some blogs are evolving to becoming closer to forums, such as the dailykos.com or performancing.com, where many people can start threads. But it still isn't as structured as a true messageboard. Messageboards (or forums) definitely play a different role than Blogs. The biggest difference is in the organization of information and the community participation in creating threads. Some blogs are evolving to becoming closer to forums, such as the dailykos.com or performancing.com, where many people can start threads. But it still isn’t as structured as a true messageboard.

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