>From: "J. van Baardwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Scouted: Commentary: Why Europe Sides Against the Jews / >tim e.com >Date: Fri, 03 May 2002 21:04:51 +0200 > >At 09:51 02-05-2002 -0500, Julia Thompson wrote: > >> > I still think it is a good idea. And if I ever get a free moment, I'll >> > consider doing it on my website... >> >>It is a cool idea, and if you can do it, that would be *really* neat. >> >>Even if you don't get it set up on a website, if you just want to select >>one post a week to be singled out for kudos, I don't think anyone would >>object. Once it got going, I bet people would e-mail you with >>nominations. > >I will certainly not oppose it, but I do not believe such a thing will >last. We have started several projects on this list in the past, and none >of them survived. The Week in Review died after about a year, and as such >holds the record for longest running project. > >Let's see what we else we had. > >Marco Maisenhelder once started an experiment in story writing. It died. >Recently someone else started a similar project here -- I have not heard >anything about it since. The Brin-L Weblog (useful URLs collected and >grouped) -- dead. Kat and Gord's on-line role-playing game "Stellar Region" >-- dead. Brin-L 5th Anniversary Party -- despite all the talk about it, it >never took place. Lurker's Guide to David Brin: only one novel finished, >review of second book (Glory Season) started but no activity on this in the >last six months or so. > >Nice idea, this "Post of the Week" thing, but given earlier experiences, I >doubt it will last. >
Re: Brin-L Weblog..... Once upon a time, I tried collecting interesting website URL's on a links page and cataloging them. At last count I had at least 1000 on my hard drive and possibly that many posted to the site. The problem with the project was it's scope. It was WAY too large to maintain properly. Just figuring out which links were dead and alive took my computer two hours on a dial-up connection. So I haven't updated it for at least 6 months to a year. http://jonslinks.tripod.com Click the " New Links Index " button. The site is unfinished. The index isn't even complete -- your best bet would be to look at each individual page and scroll. (Oh yeah, the hit counters don't work either yet, as far as I know.) I'm now on a cable connection, and could conceivably trim the whole thing down and add interesting Brin-L provided URL's to it. (I'd have to use something other than FrontPage this time, which was the source of much angst.) What do y'all think? Is it worth cleaning it up and maintaining it for the list? I mean, the project has already been started in earnest... might as well do something with it. And about the Startide Rising story project... I'm just starting to read that lists archives... hopefully I'll be able to contribute to it very shortly :) Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp.
