What about Ning?

[John Bessa]

Andressen who created Netscape (no big deal really, he just took Mosaic from the NCSA) created this site.

Supposedly you can extend the functionality here, and keep the code to use to build another site. That other site would be what we want from OEN, but owned by us.

What do we know about this? Can we use Ning to steal Rob's thunder? How would you change OEN (besides dumping Rob), and how could we code that here?

My ideas were to create a sort of desktop to assist the writing process, rather than impact it as OEN does. Besides creating the tags, there is some magic that can be done to create linking information to plug the article into the blogosphere so that the info is linked to by other stuff, giving the writing a high page ranking on Google.

Having content distributed that links back to our writing would also create more links, which would further increase page ranking, and hence more links. I think the strategy is to write about your writing in other places, such as similar pages with discussion pages, so that you link back to yourself from other places, and make it appear that your writing is seriously esteemed by others. Or maybe I should say "link back to ourselves" so that our writing appears important, as appearances are everything in a world lacking the ability to conceptualize because it is led my neural defectives.

I bet having google advertising will boost your ranking, though I don't see it as much of a revenue source (look at Rob's continual begging).

BTW, where is GLloyd?

[John Bessa]

They all have the same psychological profile, and can be identified as such. I am researching the giant Humboldt squid, that uses digital communication by "flashing" its body for predatory cooperation. The goal of the research is to show that the corporate and government predators are at the evolutionary level of giant squids, and hence not qualified for human rights, as they are billions of years behind humanity in evolution.

[Cal]

I like that description of corp & govt predators! I shall bear it in mind as I walk into the belly of the beast again tomorrow morning -:)

[waldopaper]

Yeeek! You're right about the giant korpo-squids flashing at each other:
Here There Be Monsters...

[curt]

Forko Christ ! Reminds me of the Limes wall and the Romans flashing their torches at one another to signify "all is well". I got my boss fingered out. He's a Schalke Fan. His tiny little mind has very few alternating thoughts; who am I gonna let play, who sits on the bench. How many are injured or sick and what about my seat? If I lose this next one, will they fire me? Such an idiot !!!