Just for Lilia Efimova since I know she'll catch this in her aggregator, I'm putting my HICSS Persistent Conversation Workshop presentation online. This was my response to Tom Erickson's request to think about how Slashdot might be redesigned to better support persistent conversation. The proposed changes are completely hypothetical and the whole presentation was mainly meant to spark conversation, not report results. Feedback appreciated, flames will be studiously ignored.