The New Babbage News Digest

[Galactic Baroque]

At the promptings of Mr. Tenk to make myself useful, I've taken the wiki project up.

The Task: turn the bewildering swirl of storytelling in New Babbage into one continuous story.

I fully sympathize with those who choose not to read the Ning.

Sadly, it is the nature of our environment that only a handful of people may participate or witness events that are of interest to a much larger group of people. When the stories are good, the events are buried in the Ning as fast as they are posted, and a person who is a away for even a few days can completely loose track of a story he was following.

I will not pretend to be interested in all of your stories, some are so far outside of my interests that I have trouble reading the entries. I would hope people would get into the habit of updating signifigant events, even with a simple line item statement of an event which happened in world that was interesting or propels a plot. If you have used the blogs or forums to further flesh out the event, if you would be so good as to include a link to further reading, we would all appreciate it.

The Current Events page of the Wiki is now organized into a news digest so everyone may read it without the onerous task of mining the Ning. Tenk spent a couple hours indexing the past week of blogs, the volume was more than he expected. Hopefully others will follow up with maintaining their stories on the News Digest.

http://cityofnewbabbage.com/records/index.php?title=Current_events

[Ceejay Writer]

Great idea. Anything (from nings to closets to in-boxes and beyond) benefits from an 'intake' area where new stuff can be staged in, pre-formatted, and distributed into it's proper niches as time allows.

I wish you luck, Mister Baroque. I know you excel at the fine art of slouching, and have always admired you for that. Please do not let this new-found 'work ethic' spoil your unlofty ideals!

[Blackberry Harvey]

Another good idea might bw the use of backlinks: post one's own account of an event, with a link to the "main" account or another petson's account of it, and on that entry, post a cmment with a link to your account. That way, both can be found by starting from either one.

[Galactic Baroque]

Anyone can create and edit pages, and there is only so much time I am willing to spend doing it. Have at it. The News Digest makes the references easy to grab so you can backlink to your heart's content. The thing to remember is to make it readable, not bury it in commentary.

[Tinus Koskinen]

Bravo sir, for taking the task of organizing our thoughts.

[Saffia Widdershins]

Could a copy of this be posted to The Primgraph blog, so that it might be available to a wider readership? I am sure people would be most interested!

[Galactic Baroque]

Yes! I don't have the code skills to tell you how to grab it automatically, but you are more than welcome to grab what is there.