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Tue, 04 Nov 2003

03:44 [zork(~/mrbad/wikitravel)] cat ufobeliefs.txt

MY UFO BELIEFS

URGH. So, I think I mentioned my stupid <a href="http://www.wikitravel.org/">Wikitravel</a> fetish, right? Anyways, today I was thinking that it'd be a good idea to spend some time telling other people about the site. Like, people who actually give a shit, instead of MOTD readers.

So I looked on <a href="http://dmoz.org/">Open Directory</a> for some sites that had something to do with <a href="http://dmoz.org/Recreation/Travel/">travel</a>. And there's two sites that are featured: <a href="http://www.vtourist.com/">Virtual Tourist</a> and <a href="http://www.lonelyplanet.com/">Lonely Planet</a>. So, I went and I signed in to both services, reviewed their terms of service, spent about an hour on each to get a feel for the lay of the land, and scanned around their crufty Web fora for the right area to post in, and then wrote brief posts saying that if anyone was interested in making their own, free travel guide, well, Wikitravel was for them. No vitriol, no money-changer cursing, just a gentle URL and an explanation of what we're doing.

Big mistake.

When I got back to my computer tonight, and went to check on the status of my posts, I found that both accounts -- one at each service -- were locked out. I guess Free Content is too much for the Man to handle. But I kinda feel like I was <a href="http://www.jerkcity.com/jerkcity472.html">fired from Waldenbooks for my UFO beliefs</a>.

Webzines face tough times.


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