December 17, 2008 - 8:11pm
Bread baking chat room?
Is there a chat room or IRC channel devoted to bread baking anywhere? I tend to hang out in ##cooking on Freenode IRC (http://freenode.net) a lot, but there aren't many bakers there, let alone bread bakers.
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Earlier this year we started a channel #bread, but there weren't enough people coming to it to sustain it. As far as I know, it died.
Personally, what with Twitter, baking blogs, FoodBuzz, Facebook, this site, and everything else going on (AIM, Skype, etc), I just don't have the interest or bandwidth to support yet another channel of discussion, particularly one that requires me to be tethered to a specific client and keep a connection open to know what's going on. Something like using a #bread tag in Twitter gets me a similar experience that I can access on my phone, iPod, or laptop. And it is asynchronous. Hooray for asynchronous media!
It is possible to chat in the yahoo system and they do have bread baking groups but it is not actually a chat room.
Maybe we're just all too busy baking.
There are times, though, when I want a realtime answer. I should look at Twitter a little more. I haven't signed up yet.