On 10/3/05, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Worldtraveller wrote:
Ouch! Do you mean astronomy is boring, or my writing about astronomy?
I think his point is that what is "interesting" is as much a property of the reader as it is of the subject material; perhaps moreso. One could say that "interest is in the eyes of the beholder".
Indeed. And we shouldn't stop people from writing about what interests them, regardless of how niche it might be, as long as it's something that somebody else might find interesting or useful. About the only exception I would draw to this are geneaologies and memorials to lost pets, the former because the stock wiki format isn't as useful as a system expressly designed for geneaologies, and the latter because they're just strange.
Kelly