Thursday, April 13, 2006
sorry to be a buzz-kill GBS, but I really don't think that this is a good idea. First of all, I am almost certain that OO is not the least interested in contributing the resources needed to create such a space, when if they do anything at all, they'll put their focus on promoting those people who actually involved in the event.
I'm not sure what GBS has planned. I'm certainly not into seeing all the posts uploaded. It wouldn't take much to put together certain posts, then upload that as a .pdf.
I'd just like to see them open up the old Summit Journal Chat page (in a way that we can access it) for a brief period of time around May 10th. Being a webmaster myself and serving on the board of directors of an international non-profit organization, we do these things all the time. In a sleezy way, it's PR, in an informative way, it's sharing information - doing something interesting for it's readers. Ultimately, anything that you can do for your readers to get them excited always turns into dollar signs for you. Now if you're too inept to pick up on that or you lack imagination - that's your own fault. I mean what better way to show the readers of OO that they matter, than to do an online piece on a group formed by reading OO that have been in communication for 10 years?!!
Personal feelings here aside, not to mention possible slander and other libel-chilling postings, what happened on the old chat didn't really matter.
It did and it didn't. If you're speaking of someone who lacks imagination and a concept of what the internet is, then yes, we didn't matter. But if you're talking about someone who understands that SJC participants provided content for OO for free, then maybe we did matter. We did attract some principals of the tragedy of May 1996. That is not something that "didn't really matter", in my opinion.
What exactly would we be honouring by marking May 10 in some way?
We would be remembering the tragic events on Everest, May 1996, an event that has brought a group of people together for 10 years. That's not something to put your nose up at. Frankly, I've never seen it happen in my online experiences (except for email newsgroups - which have been together since the beginning of internet time).
I'm not sure what GBS has planned. I'm certainly not into seeing all the posts uploaded. It wouldn't take much to put together certain posts, then upload that as a .pdf.
I'd just like to see them open up the old Summit Journal Chat page (in a way that we can access it) for a brief period of time around May 10th. Being a webmaster myself and serving on the board of directors of an international non-profit organization, we do these things all the time. In a sleezy way, it's PR, in an informative way, it's sharing information - doing something interesting for it's readers. Ultimately, anything that you can do for your readers to get them excited always turns into dollar signs for you. Now if you're too inept to pick up on that or you lack imagination - that's your own fault. I mean what better way to show the readers of OO that they matter, than to do an online piece on a group formed by reading OO that have been in communication for 10 years?!!
Personal feelings here aside, not to mention possible slander and other libel-chilling postings, what happened on the old chat didn't really matter.
It did and it didn't. If you're speaking of someone who lacks imagination and a concept of what the internet is, then yes, we didn't matter. But if you're talking about someone who understands that SJC participants provided content for OO for free, then maybe we did matter. We did attract some principals of the tragedy of May 1996. That is not something that "didn't really matter", in my opinion.
What exactly would we be honouring by marking May 10 in some way?
We would be remembering the tragic events on Everest, May 1996, an event that has brought a group of people together for 10 years. That's not something to put your nose up at. Frankly, I've never seen it happen in my online experiences (except for email newsgroups - which have been together since the beginning of internet time).
