i very much appreciate the categories because they give a taste of the point within the web itself. it's helpful especially without the first two sentences.

for some indecisive students, it challenges them to consider their full post rather than blurt out thoughts all willy nilly. i very much appreciate organization and i hope it doesn't make me feel like a stickler.

i love the right side tree format! i think having all options actually accommodates different visualization methods!

the not showing up part is something i am still struggling with...i woukdn't want anyone to feel excluded because others didn't see their post...maybe first direct people to the "recent posts" page rather than the web?

i do think it brings more clarity and organization.

ann, is there the possibility of panels so that one could view a post while responding to it/hover over a post in the web to see a sample of the text?

unfinished is good, in a different way. i like it in terms of an evolution, but not in the way the nowness of the article ascribes. to respect the evolution of discussion, i think i would prefer reverse chronological order.

interesting article!  and was very aware as reading it that i'm really just on the edge of even thinking about all this, and don't know a lot of the particulars named here as examples of how folks/internet are moving beyond 'nowness' as a solo or controlling value.  it really makes sense to me that there can and should be these different levels or modes - rather than a single dominant mode - such a contextual, shifting way to think about it.  so given this, interactivity does seem (strangely!) slow and linear even if in a bi-directional way, whereas unfinishedness doesn't specify or assume

also, i'm not sure how to find out what the group identity of a post is - once the exchange is underway. maybe this comes back to the question of a fallback identity under 'audience.'

also, this webby conversation does seem to be public (forgot to login first so discovered this), though we meant for it to be private...

a couple of questions this is raising for me: 

first, if i want to respond to 'clarifying' post which was in response to initial 'trying out a new thread post,' that clarifying is distinguished from others by its node number, i think... but it's too much back-and-forth to get that, so decided instead to just respond to the original post.

and i'm not clear about the different threads for different classes issue.  in studio, you went to your class and saw those conversations, but here in oneworld how does that work? 

what happens to a webby post that isn't in a group??