Log in to
Geocities Forums here, then visit your
favorite neighborhood discussion groups and meet your virtual
neighbors. Expand a section by clicking on the plus sign- in
Athens there are special sections for Education, Literature,
Poetry, and Religion, and a general message board called "Other
Discussions." The Help forum contains thousands of articles,
and members are encouraged to respond to questions from other
homesteaders.
Family Education Network forums are equipped
with user-friendly Web Crossing software, and with some new online
partners, traffic is definitely up. But we haven't forgotten a time
not so long ago when Geocities had no forums, and Athens homesteaders
paddled out to the FEN boards and hoisted a flag over an out of the
way corner there. "The Athens Conference," renamed
After Hours, is integrated into the FEN
discussion community now but if you look closely you'll see that like
many modern communities of the Mediterranean, it was founded by
travellers from Athens.
After Hours
Guidelines
NPR Forums (National Public Radio) - If you
talk back to the All Things Considered correspondents while sitting
in rush hour traffic, you'll welcome this opportunity to talk back
and be heard! With real audio listen to some of the stories as
broadcast. Intelligent and lively, sometimes heated discussion about
issues and interests of our times.
Cafe
Utne is the Conversation section of urbane
Utne Reader Online, whose
mission is providing people with new and innovative solutions for
living more balanced, fulfilling lives, and bringing about positive
change in the world.. Some discussions are follow-ups to articles
published in the Utne Reader. The online version is
Utne Lens.
Suite 101 and rival
The Mining
Company offer original articles, links to best sites on the
web, and discussions hosted by "Contributing Editors" and "Guides."
Jump right into an
Arts and Humanities discussion on Suite 101,
where the elegantly simple site design includes a registration form
on every discussion page. The Mining Company has a less simple
interface but some discussions are more developed. Our favorite
section is the Ancient History page.
If
you like to play with your virtual food or to swap inside information
with travellers, you'll love Conde Nast's
Epicurious. Search the
Epicurious
Food section with the "Kitchen Seek," then navigate
Epicurious
Travel with "Where in the World."
iVillage.com: The Women's Network, together
with partners Family Health and popular parenting sites Parent Soup
and ParentsPlace, maintain an extensive and easily navigated series
of forums covering many areas of practical interest. To navigate into
the various boards, click on the "board channels." Parent Soup and
Parents Place come up together under "Parenting." Health discussions
are extensive.
ZDNet Forums - "What are we discussing here?
Just about everything! Every ZDNet magazine and channel has forums."
Sort by brand or by category. Most discussions are computing or
internet related.
TalkCity installed the excellent Web Crossing
forum software, then forgot to promote and maintain their message
boards - it's actually difficult to find a link to them anywhere on
the site. Want to have a private discussion area for your friends?
Just pick out a likely spot on the TalkCity boards and discuss away.
No one will ever notice.