I wonder if the blog will become slightly less urgent once it fill out a little. Right now, every hour or two, I have to drop everything to record some vital thought.

This one truly is a core issue.

Incidentally, today is the 9th aniversary of Talking Points Memo. Huzah! Well, they asked readers to take a survey, so I went and did it. Several questions asked about my use of forums, which got me thinking about the subject. It's something I'm very much interested in, and, at the same time, a source of frustration.

I want to start one or more forums around assorted topics myself.

There's just one thing, one thing, I think, that can make the forum radically more useful: all posts should be displayed in a single thread, in chronological order, reliably, and by default. This means no new threads are alowed.

That's a starting place. Now that I think of it, it might be doable.