[REBOL] Re: R: Re: R: Re: Who read this mailing list?
From: carl:cybercraft at: 24-Nov-2007 0:48
On Friday, 23-Novenber-2007 at 23:35:52 Alessandro Manotti wrote,
>Hello Giuseppe, I offered my help to RT in order to help them to make
>publicity to Rebol in Italy, and this is the reason I opened a blog some
>moths ago (see http://sguish.wordpress.com), and now I "expanded" it
>creating "http://www.sguish.net". So I was starting to create a Rebol
>reference portal in Italy. I directly wrote to Carl in order to propose a
>collaboration, but I got no answer.
>So, what do you suggest?
My suggestion would be to keep doing it for yourself and the few readers it may have,
and just hope that R3 will appear reasonably soon and will be good and make your time
in the wilderness, so-to-speak, worth it. Such things take time to gain momentum. I'd
say re-evaluate it after you've been blogging a year.
Now there either will be a bit of buzz around REBOL when R3 appears, or there won't be.
But let's assume there is, in which case you'll already have a site and blog up and
running that'll both benefit from the buzz as well as being able to contribute to it.
There's no guarantees of success when you start something like you're doing. A few of
us here have done similar things. (Petr for instance partly ran a Czech/English news-site
about the Amiga in that computer's dying days. Nothing they could do either about the
way the Commodore was steering the ship!) Now you mightn't get any obvious support from
RT, but there's nothing wrong with independant news sources/sites, (and they're in fact
the preferred type), and it's nice to feel you can openly speak your mind, yes? Much
harder to serve two masters - as in readers as well as the company you're blogging about.
-- Carl Read.
