... I lost. Since Oct. 2005 the numbers (traffic) are the same. Slightly lower even.
Why?
I do not know.
I continue to work, but the traffic stays flat.
No, I am not to put an hour promote my pages.
I did as much as I could as a webmaster.
I am to accept the numbers and the verdict : it's not to be a business.
... "I didn’t direct in the Spring of 2007... This year (2007) is the first year, when I do not direct for Theatre UAF. A year ago I thought that I am gone. I got to the hospital on Christmas for the second time. I am using still my sick days reduction for the workload, but the web saved me. I did the maintenance work on my webpages, something I had no time before. I learned to write, to remember -- and think again after the strokes. I even call the year of 2007 a “web year”. " [ from my 3rd year review ]
2009 : I don't keep with Webman's Diaries... not sure what is going on with my webbing, or the overall web development.
... ten year online!
My cyber life :
Did I forget the joy I felt ten years ago? WWW = liberation!
So many plans! Such expectations!
One step : you write, they read!
Both actions proved to be questionable.
What do you write? How important, how unique it is?
And do they really read? They, web readers, do they really exist?
I should write about it in my Webmaster's blog -- shoudl I?
Does it really matter?
I lost any sense of being read, I do it for myself, the writing, the web...
And how much work is involved!
Now I know it.
Who reads this page?
I do not know.
The would-be webmaster of the late 90s are gone; the most entusiastic are blogging, some became professionals. No, I my "lessons" are not for them. What are my "lessons"?
Well, now I see web as danger, I fear it. Every page is a commitment; who knows how many hours of work ahead...
And it never finished!
Never perfect, and -- even not good.
It look ugly -- the mixture of graphics and words.
NTL, I am still doing it; still hope that there is THAT form, THAT style, THAT secret...
Why?
Don't I know that (information) technology kills wisdom, and what beauty then could I find?
... If I do not understand words, how can I understand numbers?
* 2000 -- Y2K ... geocities.com (later -- yahoo.com), tripod.com (lycos.com) : two main sites "Virtual Theatre" (vtheatre.net) and Film-North (filmplus.org).
* 2001 -- instructional pages (classes and shows). eGroups -- http://groups.yahoo.com/group/director2000 and placing on the net my nonfiction projects (Father-Russia and etc.)
* 2002 -- mailing list, plays online... I overloaded my pages with a lot of gears and gadgets.
... Last web move -- googlepages.com : theatre4.googlepages.com, for exmple. [ alternative for yahoo and tripod ] -- "writing place"? A step before docs.google.com [ PDF for publishing ]. [ for vtheatre.blogspot.com ]
Anatoly UAF + Anatoly Web + ... collect all "2007" pages!
...
footnotes: 2007 -- NEW Millennium Year, according to Ethiopians and many other non-western calendars, including lunar... read my "2007" pages [notes for myself & menu]
