Well, that was real constructive of me.  I'm taking a breather from
this.  Don't let me say anything here for maybe a week.  And I'll
simply ignore the defects in the website.  I actually said Ed should
drop it if I couldn't get through to him.  I should do so as well.

Seth

On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Seth Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> You want reviews, do some marketing.
>
> That is, outreach.  To technical publications.  It's a numbers game,
> meaning do lots of outreach and you'll get some hits.  I do it myself
> any time I want to make something happen.
>
> Unfortunately, that also requires *actual composition.*
>
> I'm not giving you bad advice.  All it requires is for you to come to terms 
> with
> that simple fact.
>
>
> Seth
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:54 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I am pleased with Leo's new documentation, but as I have just indicated in
>> the "Just one more chapter?" thread, I do not believe for a moment that
>> better documentation for Leo has any chance of making Leo substantially more
>> popular.
>>
>> So, what *would* make Leo more popular?  To make Leo **notable**, as
>> Wikipedia defines the term:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability In essence, it means:
>>
>>     **There are full reviews of Leo that I didn't write**
>>
>> Only positive, external, unbiased, widely-read reviews have the potential to
>> draw lots of people to Leo's home page.
>>
>> So that's the "grand marketing challenge": to bring such reviews into being.
>> By definition, I can not write them.  Anyone want to try?
>>
>> Edward
>>
>> P.S. The notion of "notable" came to my attention in the talk tab of Leo's
>> Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Leo_%28text_editor%29
>> After a rocky start, I realized that the editor was saying something
>> valuable.
>>
>> EKR
>>
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