Hive minds
Ken Coar: So I've concluded, at least for the moment, that I'm going to mostly just have my own original content here, rather than a list of links. [2002/12/31]
Ken Coar: Just read this a moment ago. Fascinating! ... More later; I just wanted to record this before I forgot. [2003/01/02]
Welcome to the collective. Joe created a tasty morsel. You picked it up and put a copy in your pile, with a rich pheromone trail back to the source. Now others can do likewise. This even works with two year old nuggets that are quickly picked up by others and dropped into their piles.
Sounds inefficient, but often incurs less obligation than targetted mailing lists.
P.S. Check your e-mail for in invite. Oh, and by the way, your RSS feed is valid.