Random Access

I was listening to Doc on a recent podcast, and he mentioned this site, and the need to figure out just what to do with it. Podcasting would be interesting for one use.

I'm writing this to suggest another use as well. I belong to APCU, the Chicago based computer club. We lead our meetings with something we call "Random Access", which is a group discussion where we try to help each other out with the technical issues which we can't figure out on our own.

Even in the age of Google, Technorati, etc... there is still a need for this form of interaction. Perhaps we could do something like that here, we'd need to focus on one subject at a time to maintain the flow.

Random access is moderated, which might be a bit of a stretch to do here, but it's worth a shot.

At the club when I moderate, I always start with "Microsoft Bashing", both as a running gag, and to get it out of our system (since we're all Windows users)... perhaps here it would be more appropriate to use some other common frustration.

Another way it could be done is with a technorati tag?

Just a suggestion.

--Mike--