To check out the previous two parts of this article, start here .
Update on galleries: If you delete an image and re-upload it you’ve nae chance, for a while I suspect. My tests find this occurs owing to the recognition of same keywords in both the image title and document name.
I wanted very badly to embrace local blogging. If I were successful, I’d be helping to grow the site, the successful participation would open my own investment to risk. I tried to put myself into a mindset. “What do they have in Oxford they don’t have in other regions I’ve lived ?” Not quite as many fish suppers or chip butties. The insects are strange here, and the birds also come as the size of the insects. In comparison with the Ulster I grew up in, the hedges and gardens and driveways are a lot messier. In a town pride for learning, I’d have thought public transport users would be more tolerant of readers. You gotta think outside the box, or books. I really wanted to take photographs of the birds, they proved darty little ninjas.
To secure a win, I needed the largest group. I thought my connections in the comics industry could be trusted. Or maybe I might have utilised tinyurl to put them at ease. On WWB I get a sense of my blog stats, which is something I don'tmuch on Livejournal. The quantity of comments there have led me to believe I'm writing to four people and their cat. Perhaps my comics peeps are responsible for the stats here, participating by pinging, whispering publication. I hedged my bets with obligatory shameless self-promotion ‘fan group’. A few groups that I considered useful, functional and revolutionary.
(‘The Missive Devise’ group plays with format, combines comics and activism across a broad community spectrum with real reward potential. ‘Would You Elect Andrew Luke As MP ?’ continues to play on potentialising democracy with a strong news tag promising individual experimentation in a year-long visible arts and community project re-inforcing higher brain functioning norms)
If I sound bitchy, I’m kicking myself and my contacts for the lack of hard trading. Well of course I don’t like spam either. That’s why I’m recommending to you now a fun activist site called 419eater.com focussed on the goal of ‘wasting their time’.
Juan Gualberto Limon Petersen or 'Beer' group, chose to go the alternate route by soft abuse of unwritten rules : a group devoted to naming every beer like some blind one legged dog with a fetish of brain-damaging drugs. I can be fairer about Petersen/Beer ‘s motives. By signalling to noise of mass sign ups, each of his contacts now have a chance at winning the prize money, in terms of odds one of them may do. For perma investment, Zak’s Stimulate Your Mind group won my vote. I’d encourage my readers to sign up with him as I have done. Zak as far as I know is not a junkie, and has placed a part of his soul into the project.
Update : I stumpled upon a cheat mode. I consciously used to internal market one blog entry once. The blogs aren’t perma-linked in order of appearance. Editing a blog post registers it as would a recent blog, placed atop of the RSS feed.
Conclusions
WWB lacks a FAQ section, a help guide, or user walkthrough. For it to proceed in its goals some sleeve notes have to be compiled. Shortly before I uploaded the second part of this feature, Ben posted a very helpful update on his blog full of information, transparency and comprehensive. If Ben or someone else at WWB went on to do this regularly, a bridge would be created and many of these problems would be solved. By writing this blog entry I’m doing the same thing, albeit from a less empowered, more critical, and trial-and-error experience. Which is the way the blogosphere works, and part of why blogs are so popplyar. Ben also goes onto talk about the goals of WWB, “an open directory and social networking site”. Some things just bear repeating. Go on and read the full post here.
A big problem with social networking is that some people simply don’t want to be found, and that’s for the best. I’m not going to tell you anything about my habits relating to porn sites or rape survivor communities ! WWB gets around that quite well by insistence equal to minimum info user content to provide.
I would like to be interested to know how Petersen (speculating) won. Has he been plugging the search engine thing, linking in where-ever else he exists on the web. Zak were leading 24 hours ago. It seems approx 21 people have left Zak’s group since then, and another 26 have joined the Beer trail. Most like a drink, but the ability of alcohol to assist the deaths and life abuse of so many of the people on this planet…well, don’t forgive me for wearing a frown. You’ll not see mine on Saturday, as that godgiven opportunity to secure meaningful, well-paid work has come around. (Probably nowhere near as amusing as Coralie's student intros) I'd have liked to hear Zak's six-string. The best time to drink beer is after a hard days work. I’ve just a jar of whiskey in the cupboard though, to mix with my coffee. Do they make whiskey coloured ipods ?
-Andrew Luke, 11 June 2002 21:22
Additional: As I wrote earlier, WWB Blogging has been a liberating experience. I have enjoyed getting out from restricting myself to Livejournal. The fewer places on the web one contributes to is probably related to seeing much less of the web, going to show that participation is the definite next step after publishing. Promoting this place was the impetus for doing that, though not always the end result. A darn fine through-road though.
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