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Eve Chose to Know: an experiment in WWWeb communication

When I created the first draft of my home page early in February (1995), I included a link to a series of 'rants' that I then began drafting... but March arrived and I still hadn't decided to publish any of them, so I've decided to try a different approach. (I hadn't really thought there was much hurry, because I didn't expect many people to bother checking them out-- but my html.log showed that lots of people were choosing that link...)

I've made hundreds of false starts, over the years, trying to convey my perceptions of the world in some unified form. I do fine (I think!) when I limit myself to some single area, but when I try to talk about the overall patterns, things turn to shifting sand...

So I'm going to revive a strategy that worked for a while in 1988, when I maintained a weekly two-page newsletter I called "Eve Chose to Know". I mailed that one out to several dozen subscribers (among whom was novelist Walker Percy, who called me "a highly original writer" :^) and managed to keep it up for 33 issues or so, on every topic under the sun.

In order to keep from bogging down, I made myself write those two pages in one sitting, with no second thoughts allowed-- only clarifications of wording, before mailing it off... but I think on the WWWeb, I can be a little more lax about these terms. My plan, though, is never to delete a document or thought, only to rework them and add links to afterthoughts. I probably won't hold myself to a daily regimen, but I'll aim for that frequency, even if it's a very short note, just to capture the flow of my life...

I'm expecting that the 'shock' of putting these raw messages out for the public gaze will help me see them in greater perspective... and as usual, constructive feedback is very welcome (and 'mailto' buttons will be provided at the bottom of each page for that purpose)...

  1. I hate flamers (I've become one)
  2. Names Break Bones
  3. Righteousness and rhetoric
  4. The Internet's death-of-1000-weenies
{{Some thoughts on the 1960s}}

Me, again, March 1995.

Here's a site I haven't found another place for.

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