Here's a trick for that (courtesy of Shari Lewis): hold your knuckles up in front of you, index fingers together, no thumbs. Each peak represents a month with 31 days. Each valley represents a month with 30 (or 28, for February) days.
I think I should correct myself -- when I say that I want to create a clone news community "for art", I really meant "for artists".
On hacker news, you don't see a lot of articles called "Look at this awesome new app!" -- instead you see stuff about the guys who made this "awesome app" and all the successes and failures that they've overcome.
As an artist, there comes a time where you don't want to look at other people's "awesome new art". You want to read about what drives them, or how they got started (and in the process learn about their awesome new art). I want to read about what's going on in the art market, and what people are predicting for the future of art. I want to read articles from the curator's perspective, from the collectors' perspective, the viewer's perspective.
I think the best way to get this is a non-visual system user-driven aggregation system like HN. Y'all have an awesome community of smart people submitting compelling articles... I'm simply jealous.
Do you know why they die out so quickly? Is it just because they didn't generate enough interest? It doesn't seem like it'd be costly or time-intensive to maintain.
Well in New Mogul's case, nickb has been gone for a long time, and has basically vanished. The domain expired a while ago and he stopped paying the bills when he vanished.
BrainRacer's edu news site was shut down due to a lack of traction mainly, but it would probably be best to actually ask the founder as to why exactly.
Fwiw, I also ran a short-lived HN clone for a few months (also for education news) but killed it; mainly because of a lack of traction, and I didn't care too much to keep it up. Only about 15 registered users were on it, and only 4 active submitters, including myself.
and the how-to-run-news file you extract make it simple to have it up and running in under a couple of minutes. It's just a question of whether you want to run it. I just did it to try out arc and see how HN ran in the back, but it got expensive to run it in aws all the time with no actual users or tangible benefit.
Text is still the best way of discussing ideas, even among artists. My concern is that a similar service won't get any where near the critical mass in terms of its user-base... which may be because we're more visual ;)
Brilliant idea, I've never been very far below the surface of Reddit. I'm a big fan of the @newsycombinator twitter account for mobile reading -- do you know if there's a way of making something similar for the reddit subgroup?
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