The shadowy back alleys of MetaFilter... [more inside]
posted by carsonb on Jan 12, 2008 - 125 comments

Regarding the Point Source Pollution playlist organized by Dr. Zira: Thank you to all Metafilter Music contributors in general. Having just finished dragging speaker wire all over the room and hooking up an amp, I am thrilled to finally be browsing through Metafilter Music. I haven't done so before now, and I am astounded. I feel like I'm cheating someone, somehow. Thank you to the incredible barmaljova, Saellys, inoculatedcities, and Alexandros especially for the amazing work. Thousands of others yet to hear, probably just as deserving of praise.
posted by odinsdream on Feb 16, 2007 - 8 comments

The MetaFilter community played a nice, bright part in my day today. First I woke up to find an email from another member who offered to send me a car stereo that had been sitting around in his closet for a while and would solve my iPod/car stereo problem. Best answer, indeed! During the day I scheduled a meeting with a little writing group I met via one of our own at a meetup. I'm definitely looking forward to that. Then I got pictures in my email from our own multi-talented DaShiv, of an art show I wanted to see last Friday but didn't make it to. The SF group rumbled all day about another meetup date soon, possibly when #1 is in town. I can't wait for that! Then to cap it all off, tonight I came home to find my roommate had a guest over. She recognized me and it turned out we'd been introduced at the MeFi/MoFi meetup in Berkeley. Small world!

Nothing earth shattering here, but good stuff all around. I didn't even really think twice about this stuff until just now when some said "Whatever community was once to be found here is long dead, unless you are perhaps looking for a community based on vitriol and snark.". Perhaps gd779 is kidding, or thinking of certain glory days of rapping online with old cronies now gone, and perhaps those days are over for those folks. But for me, anyway, here, now, the community is a goodly part of actual life, not just an "online" community, and certainly more than a cauldron of blind vitriol.

[this is good]
posted by scarabic on Mar 1, 2005 - 149 comments