What is your formula for finding the most active online forums for discussions about very specific subjects? [more inside]
posted on Jun 9, 2008 - 3 answers

Where are the better dog forums online? [more inside]
posted on Jun 8, 2008 - 7 answers

My parents are really bugging me about dating/marriage and I need it to stop. How, short of marrying someone random, can I get them to leave me alone? [more inside]
posted on May 27, 2008 - 28 answers

Can you help me find the fascinating and mysterious forum postings of a self-proclaimed robotic entity on sciforums.com? [more inside]
posted on May 16, 2008 - 1 answers

Is there already a precise term for the rhetorical fallacy/trick described in the following scenario: Guy A and B are arguing. Guy A makes an assertion. Guy B counters the assertion with an argument of his own. Guy A ignores the specifics of Guy B’s argument, and asserts that Guy B’s argument does not genuinely reflect Guy B’s position (i.e., Guy A says that there are certain unstated ‘real’ reasons Guy B holds the particular position he’s arguing for, and Guy A then goes on to expound on those real reasons to Guy B on his behalf). [more inside]
posted on Apr 18, 2008 - 13 answers

Looking for some well argued stock/financial discussion sites. [more inside]
posted on Mar 12, 2008 - 12 answers

Besides Google Groups, where else can I find archives of discussions from the early days of the internet? (on any subject)
posted on Mar 11, 2008 - 7 answers

Can anyone recommend an excellent art theory and modern criticism site? [more inside]
posted on Feb 17, 2008 - 3 answers

Which websites are the best at conducting vigorous, intelligent online debates and discussions? I'm especially looking for successful examples of collaborative filtering; sites where readers can quickly sort the best posts/arguments to the top of the heap. [more inside]
posted on Jan 21, 2008 - 4 answers

Recommendations needed for mailing list software [more inside]
posted on Nov 26, 2007 - 4 answers

Disturbed by the state of political discourse in the US, but don't know what's to be done about it, at least on a personal level. [more inside]
posted on Nov 25, 2007 - 13 answers

Working artists together. Do you know of any online community or email list where artists from all disciplines discuss practical working issues? Issues like negotiating commissions and contracts, our experiences with residencies and artist colonies, etc.? [more inside]
posted on Nov 12, 2007 - 4 answers

Any popular digg-style websites or blogs on Canadian politics? [more inside]
posted on Nov 5, 2007 - 7 answers

I need books for a sci-fi discussion group [more inside]
posted on Oct 9, 2007 - 49 answers

I'm looking for a Spanish email discussion list. [more inside]
posted on Sep 21, 2007 - 3 answers

I am looking for a good source of both modern and classic film reviews/discussion with fairly long and intelligent commentary on plot/cinematography/history of the films. [more inside]
posted on Jun 21, 2007 - 8 answers

What's the simplest, easiest, fastest way to create a search engine for a discussion website (in particular, this one) which is NOT RUN by that website, but on another computer, and which recognizes as searchable/sortable fields: 1) the "board" the post is in, 2) the titles as well as the bodies of posts, and 3) the dates the posts were made? Oh, and it should update with new posts every few hours, say.
posted on Jun 17, 2007 - 4 answers

So I'm likely going to be in a situation that may allow me to ask at least one question to Barack Obama. What should I say? I'm looking for interesting comment/question not necessarily having anything to do with politics. [more inside]
posted on Apr 10, 2007 - 33 answers

Where do the experienced Javascript / AJAX developers hang out and discuss things on the net? [more inside]
posted on Apr 6, 2007 - 14 answers

Where do I go to ask chatty, open-ended questions to a community as cool as the MeFi community? [more inside]
posted on Mar 21, 2007 - 19 answers

Deceptively unchatfilter =P I am looking for good discussions on Occam's Razor -- which I think is obscenely absurd. Looking for links to discussions, not necessarily petitioning comments (although welcome). [more inside]
posted on Feb 13, 2007 - 28 answers

How can I make the most of my dinner with Greg Bear, Neal Stephenson, George Dyson, and Donna Shirley? [more inside]
posted on Nov 1, 2006 - 22 answers

I want to talk with people about potential future trends as background research for near-future speculative fiction. Where wouldn't this be chatfilter? [more inside]
posted on Oct 4, 2006 - 7 answers

Anyone know a quality small business forum ? [more inside]
posted on Sep 6, 2006 - 2 answers

I need help creating a dynamic footer for the e-mail messages in a Mailman discussion list. [more inside]
posted on Aug 25, 2006 - 1 answers

I'm looking for book suggestions for a (Catholic) parish read. Good things would be wide appeal, a fairly short and very readable book, something that lends itself to interdisciplinary programming (slideshows, music, participatory discussions or lectures led by social scientists, doctors, etc., and the like), and ecumenical (appeals not just to Catholics but to others). If it's fiction, then it should have characters that people can really identify with. Anyone?
posted on Jul 26, 2006 - 21 answers

Where can I discuss movies online? [more inside]
posted on Jul 25, 2006 - 12 answers

I am looking for a free, easy to use, web site where people with my last name can have a discussion board, post photos to a gallery, as well as create some wiki-type pages... [more inside]
posted on May 24, 2006 - 7 answers

What's the next step in collective intelligence? [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2006 - 20 answers

I need recommendations for short stories suitable for discussion at a work-sponsored short story club. [more inside]
posted on May 19, 2006 - 11 answers

I'm looking for discussion list software that will allow users to receive e-mails only from other users that are within X miles of their zip code. [more inside]
posted on May 18, 2006 - 1 answers

Where can I find and participate in high-level, Metafilter-style discussion of relationships? [more inside]
posted on Apr 25, 2006 - 10 answers

I'm looking for either a mailing list or forum for music discussion. [more inside]
posted on Mar 17, 2006 - 7 answers

I need new ideas and different angles to website promotion, and since I don't have two nickles to rub together, it's gotta be free. Help me Obi-Wan-Kenobi, you're my only hope! [more inside]
posted on Feb 2, 2006 - 4 answers

I want to find other sites like Metafilter that focus solely on creativity rather than political issues or current affairs. [more inside]
posted on Dec 11, 2005 - 18 answers

"If you want to discuss [foo] on the Internet, the most popular/active/intelligent place at which to do so is http://[bar]." Is there a website that can fill in the blanks for all types of [foo]? [more inside]
posted on Nov 7, 2005 - 12 answers

Where can I find an easy, modular, includable, threaded (preferably) chat forum? [more inside]
posted on Sep 23, 2005 - 5 answers

I need to host a Lyris Listmanager install for 350 member discussion list. Does anyone have experience installing and doing this? At the very least, I need a company with PostgreSQL 8.03 and Redhat who will let me host it. I have to use Listmanager versus a free thing like Mailman. Any suggestions?
posted on Sep 21, 2005 - 1 answers

Psychology/psychiatry filter: for a friend who is not net-savvy, I am looking for interesting web sites and discussion forums devoted to psychoanalysis, self-psychology, and related topics. She's a professional psychoanalyst, but is new to the web. [more inside]
posted on Aug 29, 2005 - 3 answers

A friend of mine is trying to identify a short story that she read in high school where conversation and sex have the opposite roles than they do in our society today. [more inside]
posted on Jul 30, 2005 - 7 answers

I'm looking for online discussion groups/forums/websites for talking about movies that are more film literate than "Mr & Mrs Smith - Brad and Angelina. OMG!" [more inside]
posted on Apr 11, 2005 - 8 answers

Book discussion mailing list? I want to find a mailing list that discusses books. I'm not comfortable with like in-person reading groups because I am afraid of other people. They are weird, you know? I also like the intimacy of mailing lists as opposed to like bulletin boards. Anyone?
posted on Oct 6, 2004 - 2 answers

Is there an interactive site, preferably a wiki, where people can suggest & discuss community-blog design & features? (more inside)
posted on Apr 26, 2004 - 8 answers

Photography discussion forums. I'm sure there's thousands, but do you have any favourites? (More inside)
posted on Mar 24, 2004 - 6 answers

I'm working with a new 6th - 12th grade school focusing on Arts & Technology integrated into the cirriculum. We're looking for software that will allow us to accomplish varying tasks - e-mail for students/teachers/parents, digital portfolio publishing for students, shared discussion space for class comments, teacher/course specfic pages etc. Each student will have their own portable computer as well.

What I'm looking for is pratical thoughts/examples of how to provide this functionality. I've seen some schools using Manila, dotlrn also seems very promising but perhaps a bit too "big" for us to take on.

Is the weblog paradigm itself a good one to be pursuing to pull this off? Or are we just not ready to go there without significant effort? If you were attempting to create this techno environment for a school (many of whose students and teachers are unfamilar with technology) how would you pull it off?
posted on Jan 18, 2004 - 10 answers