j_cheney | Birthday Reflections

So today our baby the

ra_log turns one. When we started the

ra_log, it was done primarily as a temporary stand-in for the Rejections Log on Speculations (which had suffered an untimely death.) Over on

julesjones's blog, the question came up "Couldn't we just start something similar on LJ?"...And I went over and started setting one up.

It's a year later, and I don't think Speculations is coming back. Even if it did, I have to say that there seem to be a couple of advantages that the LJ version has over the Forum version. A)We can COMMENT on other's responses and B)We can use the TAGS to look for all responses on a specific publication. These two things alone suggest to me that we should keep it going, even if Speculations does make a comeback.

Some people have suggested starting similar "I'm missing Speculations" communities. The one that most quickly comes to mind is the "Shameless Self Promotion" forum.

Any thoughts on that, All you Olde Rumor Mill people?