Or another headline could be "And I Want Weblog Posts As Paragraphs In One Or Many Chronological Stories". Once I've posted an item to the blog as the top story for this moment in time, I then want that post as the last post in an ongoing story about the subject (or subjects) in the post. For someone wanting to familiarize themselves with a subject I am covering, they need to see the posts in chronological order, see both the progression of the story from inception to present and to see my progression as a reader/writer interested in the subject. This also allows for some interesting possibilities of weblogs as a tool for writing and publishing 'serialized stories', with a new, related installment each day (or however frequently you blog) adding to the overall work.

Here's an article about writing by installment and serialized stories that seems to really relate to blogging from one of my current perspectives...

"Several studies have examined how authors adapted to the serial format, making sure each number provided entertainment enough to be read by itself and yet also crafting the novel to fit into a larger work of art. Some general assumptions about the serial audience's experience are also frequently maintained--that readers, for instance, were always eager to find out "what happens next" in serial stories. Even more frequently, academic scholarship analyzes fiction without reference to this temporal dimension of the text's publication and readers' consumption of it amidst regularly scheduled interruptions."

I'm hoping that with Dave's My Weblog Outliner you will be able to write a post as a document and insert that post into one or many on-going narratives (categories, topics, blogs, whatever you want to call them). My thought was kind of each post as a paragraph, not the whole game as Dave says, but now I'm looking at them as the latest 'installment'. (I wonder if Dave reads those comments?)
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"The company, which currently supports six different versions of its enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, called R/3, plans to discontinue support for four of those versions one year from this month, said Arne Schmidthals, SAP's vice president of product management.

Half of SAP's 18,800 customers around the world are on those versions, according to Schmidthals. He said R/3 versions 3.1i, 4.0b, 4.5b and 4.6b, introduced between 1998 and 2000, won't be supported under regular maintenance plans after next December. Version 4.6c is still supported under maintenance plans."

This probably isn't news to those having any contact at all with an SAP Salesperson.
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Doc fired a hellish shot heard by and expounded on by many, including this fine summary piece by Mary Wehmeier, and then followed up with CARP CRAP post summing up the hollow, rotten, core that is much of commercial radio...

"commercial radio has no buyer/seller relationship between station and listener. That relationship only exists between station and advertiser. Therefore every commercial station's consumers and customers are different populations."

Other resources found that should give me plenty of stuff to entice listeners and others to wake up include Mary's Internet Radio - Webcasting blog (maybe a post on where it all stands today would help...hehe), Lisa Rien's radar blog on Fight CARP, and Save Our Streams. I'm hoping others will pop up so I can link to and keep my listeners informed during 2003. I know they are wanting to understand these issues as I've only mentioned it a couple of times on the air but have gotten pulled over at events asking for more information, which I want to be able to give to folks.

BTW, I just wanted to clarify the on-air dealings (Doc tried hard, but a couple of details got munged). My regular gig is called The New Jazz Thing and we are live on Jazz 88 in San Diego on 88.3 FM each Thursday evening from 6 to 9 pm PT (no Internet signal as I've said, but sources say that may be changing...we need to find out why but are encouraged). The posts from the blog and the newest Jazz recordings feed the mostly improvised set list for each show...it's a wild time to be sure! THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT 6:30 pm PT (and why I'm asking for your help on this subject), you can hear me as a guest for a Music in 2002 show on The Lounge, on KPBS Radio in San Diego on 89.5 FM or via the Internet. There is usually a call-in portion of the show, so if you want to say hi, please do...I'm not sure which of these are the phone numbers, I'll get more on this.

Thanks to Doc for the plugs and to all the ettes who contributed to this important subject.

Much Love...VO
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