Conversation versus Doctrine

Joe, who I am (from time to time) proud to have as a friend, has written an interesting piece on why he prefers conversations to books.

I don't agree with everything he's written, but it's definitely thought provoking.

Link Fest

I'm thinking of starting a second journal. Or a journal community. Or something similar. I get all sorts of cool links every day, from cool tech stuff to interesting film news and a hundred wierd things in between. I usually pass these onto other people to take a look at, but the various mailing lists I'm on at the moment are all getting a tad fragmented, so I'm thinking that a livejournal might be a better way of doing it.

And then I thought that if I was doing this as a community then other people with similar interests could post links as well, so we could share them between us. So I could start off with the few friends I know who have livejournal accounts (well, the one friend, at the moment) and then add other people who seemed interested in similar stuff.

And then I thought, someone is bound to be doing this already. Can anyone point me in the right direction to take a look? Or have any other suggestions?