On Wed, 16 Feb 2011, Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
rickywong said:
What do you guys think?
so, did anyone respond to you backchannel about your project? or was it total silence?
How many people are on this list anyway?
from 300-350, depending on duplicates.
that number has been remarkably consistent for many years, rising slowly across that time, but with an extremely small amount of "churn".
as you can see, though, it's extremely passive.
once again, everyone here has failed to meet my challenge for them to do a collaboration...
nothing new about that in terms of this list.
what _is_ new is that the outside world has finally risen to the point where it thinks that _it_ can meet my challenge, as evidenced here:
this is a new venture from hugh mcguire, who many here will surely recognize as the founder of librivox, an audiobook public-domain project.
i have talked with hugh. i am not convinced that he can best me, but i'm quite happy to see him try.
so once again, everyone here at project gutenberg continues on autopilot, while the rest of the world passes them by. oh well, it was nice while it lasted.
-bowerbird
And indeed it was so that: "Hours could seem like days, and day would seem like weeks."