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started by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 09 Feb 09
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Right now, the name of this group is "The Ravine". It is a possible replacement for a group at Ma.gnolia by that name, which I had just created when Ma.gnolia went away on January 30. This event came as a great surprise to all of us, the owner included, who seems like a decent enough fellow. While I'm inclined to give Ma.gnolia and Mr.Halff another chance, at this point none of us know when or even if that site will ever return. I hope it does, but one has to make contingency plans.
This group and my membership on Diggo, together, are my contingency plan. Regardless of what happens with Ma.gnolia, both will be put to good use. All that will change, should Ma.gnolia come back, is what that good use will be.
What I attempt to do is couple what is the strength of the blog format - the reverse chronological order of the postings always taking visitors to what is the freshest material present, without making them wade through old material to find it - with the strengths of webpages and other less linear sorts of pages, one of which is that of offering the reader a chance to be more selective about which points he will read about at length. The way I plan to do this is so simple, that I'm surprised more people don't do it - I'm going to create a series of little "consumable" sites or pages that expand on this point or subject or that, linking to them from the blog, having them link back so that when the reader is done, he finds himself back on the blog. With more standard HTML pages, the way to do this is to organize the little sites into sub-articles, in the form of strings small html pages that loop back and drop the reader off an a central homepage for the site - which is how most sites tend to work.
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