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NET VIEW
Much that was important this
month happened off the site and out of sight of the general public. The
general clean up of Scribble on the Net has continued with
generous help from Terry. To the outward eye this may well seem to include
not much more than Riven's wonderful 'Alice corners' but it also entails
much proofing, spell checking and tightening.
I'm hoping that Scribble
on the Net will be a great deal easier to navigate and browse. Riven
called over one night when I was searching for a simple visual image which
would automatically imply 'back to base' Antiquity - a long time contributor
to Scribble the Echo, Nexus Prose and now Scribble on the Net - came up
with some interesting ideas which will doubtless find their way into the
general scheme of things in the future, but Riven (who does such marvellous
things for a living) opened up his laptop and had a workable sketch in
a few moments. The next morning several versions had found their way onto
my desk top. At that point my way forward became much simpler,
Here's a big thank you to
Riven for his creative generosity. He too is a poet, though he does not
wish at this time to publish.
Another aid to navigation
is 'reader.html' - the old sitemap in a new format. I hope that it will
be easier to understand and use. (Broad smile) I also suspect that it will
never truly reach its final form. So far, it has been a pictorial way for
me to understand and explore what is going on on the site, and has clarified
some fascinating issues.
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NET POETS, WORDLOVERS, SCRIBBLE
INTERNATIONAL
The Echo is not just the basis for
the Web site, it is the backbone of it. Publishing the Echo poems has always
seemed to be attractive and inspiring to others. Someone who recently saw
the Anthologies for the first time, not only acquired copies for a friend,
but was inspired to translate the emotions he had on reading our verse,
into pictorial form. Another sat down at his piano and began to compose.
But of course Scribble is even more inspiring to other poets.
Net poets began with a group of
poets who could not for one reason or another, post on the echo. Wordlovers
meets some of those poetic needs but not, by any means, all of them, and
has appealed to an international group of people. Scribble and Nexus are
now receiving submissions from Australia, New York, Canada, and pastures
unknown. We've also been asked if the Echo can be received in other countries.
Last year we were asked to consider
distributing Scribble Internationally - this year Scribble has extended
itself to Zone 3. The International Poetry echo's website is no longer
kept current. I'm very conscious that there are only so many hours in a
day - and that 'too much for one person to do' is only round the
corner for me. However, I believe that it is good for us to be part of
an International Community, and that rather than losing by these extended
contacts we, and FidoNet, have gained. The sense of intimate, creative
community remains strong, and the quality and range of the new poets is
welcome.
'Inspired by' : The
seed and core of Scribble on the Net is still New Zealand and FidoNet.
Personally I'm proud of our spreading influence and our new friends. It
is going to be interesting to see what forms these new contributions take.
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AWARDS, AND REWARDS
Scribble on the Net
has been privileged by the encouragement and praise of others, both in
private mail and in the form of awards. Our first two awards were not,
strictly speaking, for Poetry but were awarded to the site itself.
Loadstar's Merit Award
Phenomenal Women of the Web:
June saw more awards - enough that
it seemed right to put them in a Trophy Cabinet
made for the purpose I've been rather pleased (to put it mildly) to have
had a continued correspondence with Jackie Atkinson of Dragonfly Landing,
and with 'Jonas' - both of whom have visited and revisited the site and
have continued to give comment and feedback. Scribble has several links
from both Dragonfly Landing, and from Jonas, as well as a new listing on
Poetic Dreamscapes. There seem to have been some difficulties with 'Yahoo
Geocities' and the Poetic Dreamscapes Journal. I'm assured they're only
temporary and I know from observation that other Geocities sites are having
similar difficulties.
AWARDS THIS MONTH
Odonata, Dragonfly Landing,
Award for Poetry.
Award for Creativity
Jonas
Award for Poetic Excellence
Site Award for excellence
Roland Todd, Rhyme None
Poetry award
Links
Poetic Dreamscapes
On line Poetry Journal
WEB RINGS
My intention is to provide browsers
with at least two web rings of general interest, and several specialist
poetry rings. which are, as far as I can tell, of good quality. I think
we have that with Netzone and Phenomenal Women
both
of which have standards of excellence for admission.
I'm similarly
pleased with the Poetry Empire. I've had two attempts at
joining 'the Writer's Guild '. The first time there
were technical difficulties with the Guild itself, as yet, I don't know
what the delay might be on our second attempt.
Poetry
Haven seems to have a great deal of merit, though there is a little
delay in being added to the ring. I am waiting till August to apply
for a ring which has already added us to their 'e-zine' links. Poetry
Web Ring and The Writers Ring seem to
me to be good value, though the Ring Masters are on vacation at present.
OUR WEB
RINGS
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WORDLOVERS
Welcome to July !
Very little has happened on
Wordlovers for quite some time. I've been battling with 'flu bugs, not
all of them my own, and have come to with a start, and a pile of wonderful
poetry to put up on the site and an empty folder in my email list. This
can't go on I tell you! I very nearly had a warm cup of coffee ! I Just
know that the world is about to fall apart.!
WHAT HAPPENED IN JUNE:
The first
month of our operation saw 129 messages flow out, most of them in clusters.
Most of those messages were from Loadstar, Alys and Davyd, Stardancer (Raven?
DR?) - while Classic and Gypsy Pete and Jamie Walker and Lorelei
and Tina slipped in and said hello.
Lorelei
posted a lovely poem - can we use it on Scribble please ? Last time of
asking.. I promise not to bug you again about it.
It saw our
first official Net Poem of the Month put up on Scribble - well done Loadstar
! (Which was it ? Go have a look:))) Increase the Hit Rate;))
We little
bits of fun, very little gossip and chatter, and some good poems - most
of them from Loadstar:) Keep an eye on Scribble - as some of them will
be published in the next few - er -soonish:)
I'm hoping
this month to put up a page of links to Wordlover's sites.
Please drop us a line to tell
us about your site, and if you're willing for it to be part of the Scribble
Links.
POEM OF THE MONTH
Poem of the
Month is a Scribble echo tradition which is all of a year old now,
I'm following a similar guideline for this email list. In other words,
the Poem of the Month isn't necessarily the best poem - grammatically or
technically - it is simply - memorable. Bits of it will trail round me
for ages after reading it. The reason for this is that we cover a lot of
different kinds of poetry, different styles, different philosophies. I
can't compare oranges to apples and I won't do it. Memorable I can
do - even if, for one reason or another we end up with Three poems of the
month of wildly different quality - that's what we'll do. (grin)
BEAUTIFUL WRITING:
Way back
in the distant times, before we'd ever heard much about 'the Net' or the
World Wide Web, Dragon and I had a long discussion about whether his work
(or mine, come to that) was poetry. There's a kind of tradition of
'good writing' never mind what you wish to call it that has been around
for a long time. This month I've seen two pieces that are well worth publishing
as they are. One is currently being edited for Scribble and the other may
well be put onto the nexus/prose/ site when we can wrestle it from the
author's tight clasp as being 'more or less finished'. So Please don't
feel that everything has to 'look like poetry' to be posted..
GUIDELINES
1. If you want comment on your
poem, then tell us so - some people don't want it - and I live by the philosophy
that everyone should be allowed to say no.
Creative and Constructive Criticism
is expected. C& CC Welcome, is a good shorthand for indicating
your willingness for others' comments.
2. We assume copyright to the
author of anything posted here. You may feel more comfortable however,
if you write the copyright on your message.
3. Which leads me to another
point. This email list is part of the life of Scribble on the Net. It's
a great help to me if you indicate whether you're willing for me to publish
your work on the website. WPP means Web Publishing Permitted (grin) if
it's not on your poem I may still nag a bit.. but I need, for reasons of
copyright, written permission. It's real good in my sight not to have a
thousand files all saying, yeah you can publish it !
But I am strange that way. Oh
- and Welcome to our new (and returned) List members..
NEWS FROM THE ECHO:
The Scribble
Echo was regularly in the top bracket as far as numbers of messages posted
were concerned in New Zealand. This has gone on for ages. It seems however
that it has been among the top one or two posters in the Z3 FidoNet area
- that's Australia and New Zealand combined. We were asked if Australia
could distribute the echo. That has now been done, though so far, no one
new has posted - I'll keep you informed.
Other news:
Alice Thorpe was declared A
Phenomenal Woman of the Web. She was very proud and humble and cried
rather a lot. Also became very confused. All I do is publish Your Work!
and that, my dear fellow wordlovers seems to have been 'all for this month':)
Come on, out
with it !
Who has the
Poem of Hearts,
who has the
Ace of Sonnets
so slyly
on his sleeve?
Has your mind
sung wild words,
a whirl of
white doom's edgy
distrust?
Is there, hidden here,
no maelstrom
of words
rags of worse verse
or mischief
's delight?
Something
of beauty,
something
of grey, something perhaps
dark and achy,
bruised with
regret, heart held,
in boned
fingers,
mind less than fed ?
Touch me with
tenderness,
words to
quiver me raw
peel me
to sinew,
to sharp
nerve bereft,
sketch for
me words, carve
into flesh,
song self
in my mind,
tease me with
apples of lust
with soft
laughter,
converse !
lots of love,
alys
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NEW ON THE SITE
May 'Poetry
from the Echo' is now up - a goodly selection with some interesting poems
in it. Anthology has the addition of works by Geoffrey Chaucer and
Sir Walter Raleigh, and Terry Bowden's Exposition of Concession to Paradise
has appeared in the Resources section.
COMING SOON
Three
'Dreaming poems' by Will, and two new poems from Purple Witch are partially
set. A Story by Annie Haywood, A prose poem by Noel Fuller and his
poem about 'Gold at the end of the Rainbow' Poems by Gypsy Pete, More from
Maxine Annabell and Alys, and The June Echo Poets are waiting to be set.
Eddie Kyle has
provided us with an article on filking at long last, for the Resources
section. We have permission to publish his own 'filks, and are waiting
to hear back from Porcelina Spring for similar permission to publish one
of her latest works.
We're awaiting
permission for several other poems, and have received permission from Tristan
Jacob-Hoff to reproduce two of his unpublished poems. The Retrospective
will be updated shortly after all this has gone up. .
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For those who are interested
in statistics
There were 361 visitors
to the site in the month of June.
At the time of writing this report
we have had 1474 visitors to Scribble on the Net. Since March we
have had 457 visitors from New Zealand, 275 from the unknown
country, 214 from US Commercial, 105
from Network, 69 from the United States.
Other visitors
have come from Australia, Canada, US Educational establishments,
Japan, Singapore, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Austria, Russian Federation,
Italy, Germany, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Belgium, India, Argentina,
Finland, Ireland, The Ukraine, and Norway.
Most referrals (62.5%) come from
Yahoo with the Nexian Complex providing the second highest proportion
of visitors to the site.
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