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Originally Posted by dan
Why not collaborate with Doug on this? Maybe even record these talks and put them up on Doug's "RV Talk" section for the world to hear.
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You missed the point. It IS a collaboratio with Doug. It's a colalboration with the MN Wing, it's a colalboration with the EAA, it's a collaboration with Yahoo,it's a collaborattion with Matronics, it's a collaboration with anyone who has something SOMEWHERE (keep in mind this is simply a newsletter not a Web site.
I'm an editor. It's what I do. I get as much information as I can from various places and then say "well, this is pretty interesting, let's make note of this and send people to that location."
That's what this is.
But I also run a news Web site for a living and I can tell you that no matter how many times people go to it, stuff scrolls off or escapes their notice because they were heading somewhere else. This can help aggregate that content across a wide spectrum.
New media is a vastly different medium. People do NOT -- as a rule -- read from the top down at a Web site, the way they would for a newspaper or a Sport Aviation. If there are 30,000 pages on a Web site, that's 30,000 entry points and 30,000 exit points and the bulk of those are going to be single page-views. Bad thing. Too easy to miss important stuff.
And if you look at Doug's very informative post on traffic, you can see that most of the page views are in the Forum and not everyone goes to the front page...or they may not go every day and stuff scrolls down...and down...and down to the point where they may not find it at all. That's not good for them, it's not good for Doug.
So this idea is meant to take note of those things that ARE important -- depending on the editor's opinion -- and give them more exposure across a wide spectrum because, well, some things actually ARE more important than others.
And there are thousands and thousands of people out there building, flying or interested in building and flying and the bulk of them don't post. They just want to make sure they're not missing anything.
Me? I can't get enough RV information. To the extent others can... God bless them and the Red Sox. If they don't subscribe, they won't have another burden.
Life is fast. There's lot to do. A quick read can be helpful and for those who want a longer read, the links will all be there for them to get here...or there....or anywhere else where something RVish is happening.
And I can tell you that there's never going to be just one place -- one Internet site, one chapter house, one company, where stuff that's interesting is going to be. Never. Information is expanding far, far too fast for that.
Aggregation is good. Aggregation with an editor's sensibility is even better.
Especially when it doesn't cost anything and you don't even have to look at it if you don't want to.
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