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September 19, 2004
Closing Time Continued
A couple of emails asked for more details on why I shut down pursued by bears, as announced here. Here is a little more context.
The surviving site, bend of bay, has been around for five years or so. The idea behind bend of bay was and remains fairly straightforward. It features rotating content and no by-lines. The practical advantage of rotating content is that there are no deadlines, which is a real plus if you happen to have a day job. The idea was to watch it evolve, to see how the various pieces managed to interact.
When blogging became popular, I decided to experiment. The premise behind pursued by bears was to follow a character as he walked from the United States (New Jersey or New York, to be more precise) to Europe. The site also featured Harry and Doris, the main character's parents who are dead but still sentinent, a man who believes that he is God, and various other odds and ends. After a while it seemed that pursued by bears was basically a variant of bend of bay, but in blog format. It also caused me problems managing comment spam. So I decided to fold the story lines into bend of bay.
Bend of bay's technology is somewhat outdated but it gets the job done. I am looking to ways of incorporating the best features of blogs and rss into bend of bay, but I am not very tech savvy so will need to wait for the right guidebook. Should you have a suggestion, please comment or send an email to apc@bendofbay.org
Posted by apc at September 19, 2004 08:37 PM