I think this is a great idea, and worth doing. But, in the long run, I wonder if we aren't asking too much of Morgan, or anyone else, and not using the strength of the web to "jujitsu" things to our own benefit?
Increasingly over the past few months, I've gotten frustrated because it has been too much trouble to save all the bookmarks of all the neat postings, and all the other sites. Relying on Morgan, or anyone else, is like having a single main-frame with no back-up.
What happens instead if we think in terms of a "distributed" architecture, like networked PCs? What if a hundred of us establish our own web pages, with links to as many others as we can? This mimics the web as a whole, and avoids single-point failures from the termination of any single account. I mean, like I could post everything I know and have ever seen and still have space left on my ISP server space allocation. I think. Why put the $$ burden on one volunteer?
Yeah, there will still be frustrations with some dead links, but if we get clever, our web sites would have a way to notify the owners when a link has died.
If there is support for this, I, Harvey Sachs, just might avail myself of the free hosting by my ISP and learn enough to put up my photos on a site, and link to CR, Wool Jersey, and at least some of the other great sites that we read about on this list. And I'm about the least computer-literate and most cro-magnon on this list. :-)
Harvey Sachs McLean VA +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Hi,
Thursday, October 9, 2008, 10:15:33 PM, Wayne Bingham wrote:
>> I had talked with Morgan and was planning on making an official plea >> to the list, but it seems like the ball is already rolling. I >> received a great suggestion off list, and I'm going to champion it >> here.
>> If we all, or at least all that can, contribute just $25 a year, I >> think that will go a long way toward ensuring the continuation of this >> great resource. I know that quite a few of us use the site >> extensively, and even more visit often to gather information or to >> just look at the great pictures of bikes and related people and >> events.
>> Please join me in supporting Wool Jersey by making a contribution here:
>> paypal@hahaha.org
Good idea. Done