I think the experiment is interesting enough to continue. But maybe you should consider putting the date of the post it was mentioned in next to the links. I think that it would make it easier to sort them later on.
Sonja Jon Gabriel wrote: > >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.
