Anyone want to join this "conversation" here?

I posted this via clicking on the "POST A NEW MESSAGE" button. Hi Seltzer chatterers!

This is a test posting done before the actual synchronous demo.

At 10:52 AM 10/10/2001, David Weinberger posted:

> > Count this as a testimonial.

And count this as a tutorial... I'm posting it by replying in email to David's welcome (and true!) comments, which were delivered to me as an email msg because I'm Subscribed to this Topic. Thus (if I'd downloaded new subscription-delivered email prior to going offline), I could participate in this Topic, uploading my reply when I empty my outbox.
Since this email-submitted posting wasn't done via the web while I was signed in, it doesn't show the little gray star next to my name.

Count this as a testimonial.

I use QT all the time. When it looks like an email thread is going to be more than a simple back and forth, involve more than two people, and/or needs some permanence, I start up a QT thread. In fact, I use QT as a way of making email one big step better. QT has always upheld its reputation for being incredibly easy and reliable. And ad-free. It's got a lot of what's best about the Web.

Have I mentioned that I like it? :)

(This is still really Dan Kalikow, but I got tired of "talking to myself") (not that this post is much of an improvement) :-)

See that because I'm using QT without my UserID, whatever name I "sign" is not shown with a little gray star on the web view.

This is the basic Quick Topic thread, not associated with any doc being reviewed.

Please consider the benefits to you if you Subscribe to this Topic -- you can receive email anytime anyone else posts. Having seen that email, you can [use your email client to] REPLY to it, and QT will receive it and post it into this Topic. You can also choose to receive a daily roll-up of all posts in this Topic, which lessens the incoming email volume (at the price of less immediacy).

The Subscribe link's in the top left corner of this screen.

OK, the emailed invitation's been out for a day or two. Here's its text, as modified appropriately for appearance within one of the Topics mentioned in the email. Sorry but no engraved invitations are possible on the web; the closest I can come is to use blue font... :-)

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On Thursday of next week, October 11th 2001 from 12-1PM EDST, I'm going to be demoing and discussing Steve Yost's Quick Topic (QT) and QT Doc Review (QTDR) as a guest presenter for a web-chat run by an old friend of mine, Richard Seltzer (website: http://www.samizdat.com/ .) This, possibly the web's longest-running chat program (since 1996), is called Business on the Web: where "word of keystroke" begins. (http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html .)

Please check out that last link for the necessary pointers, and if your schedule permits, please drop in on the 11th for what promises to be an interesting real-time (synchronous) discussion.

I'm letting you know about beforehand it because you, as experienced users both of QT and QTDR, might possibly have the time to visit some URLs I've prepared for this demo. If there's some interesting asynchronous discussion already visible there, it'll make for a more fruitful synchronous discussion and demo in the actual event. Here are the pointers:
• There's a standard Quick Topic discussion underway right here, in the Quick Topic entitled Richard Seltzer's 'Business on the Web.' The purpose of this Topic is to demo and discuss the features of "basic Quick Topic."
  
• I've also written a "guinea-pig" doc for use in demonstrating QTDR -- and uploaded it there. Its TITLE is Demo doc for R. Seltzer's Oct 11 '01 chat. The reviewable form of the doc is at http://www.quicktopic.com/9/D/UkdRKy5kXwBg.html , and
  
• The Comment Forum for the doc can be found at http://www.quicktopic.com/9/H/UkdRKy5kXwBg .

Please check them out, make whatever comments, and ask whatever questions you like; I'll participate too, and with a will! I'm hoping that we can get a good, asynchronous discussion and doc-review going prior to noon Thursday.

Thanks for your possible interest and participation. I hope to "see" you asynchronously in the Topics, anytime between now and the chat (and/or afterwards), and also to "see" you synchronously during Richard's chat on Thursday October 11th.

Please feel free to pass this invitation, and these pointers, to others who might be interested in learning about these imho extraordinarily valuable tools. Thank you!

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So! Here you are... want to try posting something? Sure y'do... :-)

Hello again, and welcome to the month of October.

I just realized that the last time I posted herein, I (and the rest of the US) was blissfully unaware of the impending horrors of September 11^th... :-(((

Soon, I'll be sending out invitations to participate in this discussion. Until then, guess it'll be just me, talking to myself...

Edited by author 09-05-2001 12:35 PM
Welcome, participants in Richard Seltzer's Business on the Web - where "word of keystroke" begins. Anyone who receives the URL for this discussion should feel free to experiment with this Topic and/or to create their own.

You'll get more value from your participation in this discussion if you Subscribe to it, so that you'll get email anytime anyone else posts to it. You can post your replies to others' posts via email as well.

See you later!