Re: Correction, I hope, of M/C URL

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Sally Caves wrote:

> Sally Caves wrote:
> >
> > "Audience, Uglossia, and Conlang: Inventing Languages on the
> > Internet" by yours truly was accepted and posted by
> >
> >         M/C: A Journal of Media and Culture
>
> Pardon me... my first post to Conlang in three months, and I
> get the URL wrong:
>
>         it's:
>
>                 http://english.uq.edu.au/mc
I'm far too busy working with Python these days to do much conlanging,
or even much reading of the list ;-(. but I did catch this one. I was
fascinated with the article, of course, but then I already had seen some
prior versions.

But I was fascinated by the layout, too. When I first saw the sidebars
with 'bit 7' and so on, I thought it was enormously silly, but what it
did was to make it easier to read a long text on the web, by showing the
reader he's making progress in the same way one feels a book fattening in
your left hand in a satisfying way. It's really one of the best attempts
at making websites readable I've seen. (Colourcoding the 'bits' was
handy, too - they might have made the page number (bite seven) a bit
more prominent, though, I only noticed it on the last page. Oh, and
include a jump to the references would be a good idea.) All in all a
very creditable and credible publication.

Sally, do you get any kind of access statistics from the publisher? I noticed
that I'v got slightly more than average accesses to our mirror at xs4all.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org