In case you’re on micro.blog and missed it, @JohnPhilpin is asking people interested in joining a Micro.blog Reader’s Club to complete this form. 📚
@kimberlyhirsh @JohnPhilpin I’d normally be first in line to join a readers’ club but I’ve managed to avoid Zoom (and video on Teams) so far, and I plan to keep it that way. I haven’t got a fixed internet connection here, so I rely on my phone’s data plan to get online. Because of that, I’m trying to avoid high bandwidth use. But it isn’t just that: I’ve never felt comfortable being on video. So, sorry I’m not going to be taking part, but best wishes for the success of the Readers’ Club.
@artkavanagh @JohnPhilpin I'd be open to a more asynchronous, text-based effort to deliberately engage with each other around books.
@artkavanagh I get it - you can participate as audio only - but not sure that solves the bandwidth chalkenge - since all the others video will be coming to you.
@JohnPhilpin @artkavanagh I've not used Signal before but I'm open to trying anything that would make it accessible for Art.
@kimberlyhirsh signal or any other messaging app that supports groups across multi platforms that isn’t what’s app … suggested signal because that is already a channel for some micro bloggers - happy to go with the flow - I was thinking we would have something like this in parallel with whatever we do live anyway.
@JohnPhilpin @kimberlyhirsh I’m happy to try Signal (or similar) or something like Zoom without the moving pictures. So, I’ll fill in your form.
@kimberlyhirsh @Johnphilpin That sounds like my kind of thing:
a more asynchronous, text-based effort to deliberately engage with each other around book
