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Proving Roger Black Wrong By: Mark Morgan on 4/24/2000; 6:26 PM No, not just because I don't like anybody who's as arrogant as I am. But Roger Black thinks he knows better than you do, and he's wrong. Here's his bit: there is no collaboration, no web as web, no "community" any more on the Internet. I think he's completely fallen off his chair. He's just not seeing it. I know one community already--Nitpicker Central Bulletin Brash Reflections. I know a lot of the personalities there. We can take each other to task for what we've said. Some of those there followed me here (actually, followed me around the web as I moved the site all over the place). People know what to expect from me. "Now, when I say this, I know Mark Morgan is going to demand to see the evidence." How is that not community? He's missed us in his dismissal of the web. He also has missed the potential of Conversant, but I'll mail him a pointer and demand he see where he's wrong. Divide information into modules? We're as modular as you can get around here, bub. How many protocols can we have Conversant support? We've already got HTTP, SMTP, and NNTP, XML-PRC and RSS are surely on the horizon, Lord knows what else will pop up in the future. And this site can take advantage of all of it. I haven't even begun to explore all the ways we can use this site. Were you aware you can e-mail stories directly to the discussion group, and I'll make them web pages? You can receive this site as e-mail. Ditto with your newsreader. I'll post instructions soon, honest. But we can communicate over the Conversant system and build the community Roger Black says ain't there. He's wrong. Let's make him even more wrong. Nobody's abandoning the traditional magazine publishing schedule? We are. Nobody's building community into the heart of their site? We are. You listening out there, Mr. Black? You're missing the important things while you cruise to conferences and get interviewed by Adobe and tell us all how isolated and cliqueish we are. You say you haven't begun to explore the deep parts of the Internet, then you go and tell us that there is no community. You're not looking deep enough. We've got a community right here. Conversant gives us the ability to build that community in any bloody direction we want. While you have missed us completely. Okay, now I feel like Guy Kawasaki. Time to e-mail the man and tell him to his face that he's missing all the imporant action on the Internet. But I promise to be polite. Belay that. Finding his e-mail address may be an impossible task. After waiting ten thousand hours for his design firm's website to load, all I could hunt up was a corporate contact. And after all the sniping at other people's crappy designs and lack of community, having a site that takes ten thousand years to load and uses that awful white on black color scheme does not inspire confidence in me. I just about went blind there. Anyone who has his e-mail, I'd appreciate it. I'll be polite, when I ask him what the hell his deal is. Promise.
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