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Question about links pages
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lugnet.publish
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Wed, 26 Feb 2003 18:23:22 GMT
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I used to maintain a pretty extensive set of links pages. Since I have
relocated, and no longer have an office machine with the master copy of
the pages on them for easy editing, I have hardly updated them at all. I
now periodically get e-mails requesting updates.
What I'm wondering is how worthwhile it is to leave the pages up vs.
just pulling them down. If I leave them up, I may add a note that they
are no longer being maintained and requests for updates will probably be
filed in the bit bucket (actually, I'll probably file them in the "web
page" folder, which I never look at...).
Some of the other factors in the decline of these pages:
- When I started them, I was in a job situation where I didn't have
enough work, so I could devote 3 or 4 hours a day at work to keeping
them up to date.
- Since I started them, traffic at Lugnet has significantly increased.
- I also lost my .netrc which let me keep track of Lugnet posts that I
still wanted to use for reference of the pages (actually this is the
thing that really killed them)
- I used to spend way too much time on the internet, I'm really trying
to cut down
The pages had actually started as my attempt to keep my "favorites"
better organized, then I had the brilliant idea of sharing them, which
also meant I could access them from home.
A big lesson to be learned from this is that creating and maintaining
links pages is a huge effort. What really needs to happen is to have a
much better indexing. Sometimes I wonder if the web is ultimately going
to collapse as a truly usefull resource (as advertising becomes more and
more in your face, people spend more and more of their design effort on
fancy animation and such [which often means I ignore their page], and
indexing becomes less and less usefull). Heck, it's even getting painful
to use the web to make purchases (since the commercial web sites are
falling prey to the same fancy animation and Javascript and such
[Javascript seems to cause browsers to go to sleep for 20-30 seconds
with no net or screen activity whatsoever]).
Frank
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