About Interesting Singularity Blurbs
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This document refers to Interesting Singularity Blurbs and Ideas For Interesting Singularity Blurbs.
The idea is to create a Website that everyday presents a short blurb of text about an SL4 topic (or an idea that will prepare people for SL4 ideas). People would come to this Website, read about the blurb, and then post comments and read comments that other people have left regarding that particular blurb. There would of course also be a way to see all blurbs and their comments, but the front page would shuffle through them, one a day. My thinking is that this would be a `slow' site, in that, rather than constantly updated content, the site has static content generated by its designers but new people constantly find the site and explore its content.
Each blurb should be about 200 to 500 words long, but not much longer because we want something that can be read in a minute or two. Personally, I read at 230 wpm, and the average English reader reads at 250 wpm. Blurbs can be shorter, but if they are you must be sure that you've presented enough information for someone to go on. These blurbs should be mostly self contained, and that can be difficult to do in just 50 or 100 words.
Please post proposed blurbs on Interesting Singularity Blurbs. Credit them if you wish; the final site my or may not feature anonymous blurbs. They will be subject to editing before we would post them. Anyway, these are all future worries contingent on having some interesting, useful blurbs. We'd like to collect about 60 to 100 such blurbs. Duplication of ideas is okay, so long as the presentation is sufficiently novel (it helps to look at the same idea from different angles).
If you don't have the time/skill to write blurbs but have some ideas for interesting topics to investigate, please post them to Ideas For Interesting Singularity Blurbs.
I haven't written any blurs for a while and probably won't. The reason is that I just don't write well enough. I've gotten dramatically better recently, but I'm still not good enough. The idea isn't dead, it's just that I personally am not up to snuff yet. I'm getting there, but writing these blurbs is not the best way for me to practice right now. I hope to return to this project in a few months or a year.
