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| − | This page presents RainDog's '''primal rant'''. | + | This page presents RainDog's '''primal rant'''. Wikipedia defines [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rant rant] as follows: |
| − | [[Category: | + | :"A rant is a widespread and distinctive phenomenon of emotional speech or writing in the form of a series of complaints or attacks, about a topic of interest, many times political in nature." |
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| + | The Wikipedia article lists a selection of rant sites. See for example [http://www.justrage.com justrage]. | ||
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| + | "Primal" refers to either [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Primal_Scream primal scream] or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primal_Therapy primal therapy]. In any case the main idea evoked is that of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pain pain]. | ||
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| + | See also RainDog's blog at [[User:RainDog]]. | ||
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| + | == RainDog's First Rant == | ||
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| + | I thought that if I created a website my output would get on Google and at least a few people somewhere would read some of it. But I've created about 6 websites so far and NOBODY EVEN LOOKS AT ANY OF THEM. The statistics show that I am generally the only visitor on all of them. | ||
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| + | (If you are by some quirk of fate reading this please send an email quick to [mailto:conviviality@ouvaton.org conviviality@ouvaton.org] to let me know the good news. Or log on to this wiki and edit ANYTHING.) | ||
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| + | My main [http://conviviality.ouvaton.org Convivial Tools] website was visited by a Google bot or [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_crawler web crawler], probably because I tried to register the site on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Directory_Project Open Directory] (which is about as "open" as a locked bank vault). But the Google robot only crawled the first page of the site, and that page comes up so far down on the Google listings that I can't even find it myself. | ||
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| + | Of course there are techniques for boosting websites upwards in the Google listings. There are even [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization Search Engine Optimisation] (SEO) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb#motivations contests] where competitors try to come out on top of some arbitrary weird Google search. But I'm too busy developing content to pay attention to all that. | ||
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| + | There also seem to be lots of other factors: the creators of successful sites or blogs are in contact with a community, or they have lots of friends, or their topics interest more people, or maybe sometimes they are just lucky. Whatever it takes, I obviously lack. | ||
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| + | So why am I spending my time developing content for a series of websites that no one sees? Some possible answers: | ||
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| + | * Because this is my fate, like [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisyphus Sisyphus] forever rolling the rock back up the hill. | ||
| + | * Because maybe someday something will change, and someone will read a page or two somehow. | ||
| + | * Because the content can always be used elsewhere, such as copied onto Wikipedia or onto some other wiki. | ||
| + | * And just because. | ||
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| + | - September 2007 | ||
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