Go for it!

Please experiment as much as you'd like, and thanks for offering to do it.

Steve, if you click on the word "Culturing" above, you'll find this explanation:

"An open space for brainstorming, informal discussion, ongoing informal research and feedback, and aggregation of relevant social media. Anyone can comment here without registration, and there is room for practically anything. We distill from volume. We grow from organic collection and discussion. Informal, incomplete, non-finished ideas, comments, contributions are the building blocks..."

Basically, Myself, Paul Hartzog, and Rick Adler needed a place to move our backchannel email discussions to. Then, we started to innovate and thought about how we could use this site to:

1. Dump in anything that we normally talk about via email, and have a discussion in the open. We made it really easy to bring stuff in by making a Post culturing bookmarklet, and a way to import RSS feeds, plus ways when you post to send messages out to twitter, facebook, etc

2. We will end up *doing* things with what we post here. For example, we will collect different posts into an outline, then rework that into a whitepaper, or blog post for elsewhere, etc.

3. We can invite people to comment here, and we are trying to make it obvious that this is NOT a formal place, that more informal opinions and comments can be made here. We even made so that you can comment without registering.

So, "Culturing" is derived from the practice of introducing different organisms into a petri dish, and seeing what grows, what emerges. We are "experimenting" here. There doesn't have to be a purpose. The site doesn't have to be about anything. But, of course, it is about something. It is about experimenting with natural information networking practices, and seeing what we can do together with the behaviors that we were already doing separately, and seeing what we can do in the open with he behaviors that we had hidden previously.