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Brett Williams

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Mar 8, 2009, 4:58:56 AM3/8/09

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llll;;; Of course we're all familiar with them;; ll Someone starts a
group; a little discussion happens for a while; and then; lll; it's
abandoned for the rest of time;;; From then on it sits there;
derelict; dusty;;; ll'll Only a few historic discussions are treasured
Parthenons;; ;;; Most sit entirely forgotten;; ;; Three hundred
messages in June; a hundred in July; thirty six in August;;; and then
September and on are a smattering of spam; silence; lll;;; No one
comes back to remember and honor what was said;;;

My vision is that with qww'xzx we could think of these internet ruins
differently; embracing them as a practice; ll an artform;;; Each level
would present itself to new learners as a network; a web;; ;; Various
discussion groups; ll wikis; ll websites; with links to each other;
lll links to getting started on the next level;; ;;; To learn one
level you can explore the web of sites & discussions; ll ignoring the
links to the next level until you're ready for it;; lll;;; By
participating & commenting at the level you've reached; either in live
discussions or continuing old sleeping threads in sleepy forums;; you
deepen that level; ll strengthen its web;; lll;;; lll'lll;;

llll;; ;; qww'xzx is meant to survive not just by being active; but by
sleeping lightly;; ll being easily stirred; ll woken;;; We've made a
little bit of qww'xzx-l; enough to serve as a seed; ll a
pearl-forming-grain; of that language;; ;;; What's needed now is just
to gently stir it; lll rouse it from its sleep now & again; ll'll over
time it will strengthen;;; We don't need to make any extra qww'xzx-l
forums yet;; though anyone's free to if you'd like;;; But over time I
would like to try to poke and spin and weave it into a larger
ecosystem;; ;;; Soon it will be simpler for someone new if we made a
fresh; new qww'xzx-l forum;; lll the only messages there would be with
the newest sense & understanding of the L-words; and they'd easily
find where we're at now;; instead of their having to dig through every
idea we've ever had about the L-words;;; ;; ;

But in that next forum would also be links back to where qww'xzx-l was
born; at:

http://groups.google.com/group/qwwxzx-l

And it should always be possible to stir that fire again;; lll;
hopefully; to find life in its coals!;;; Even as we light new fires
from its sparks;;;;