Will This Work For You?

Posted: February 19th, 2016 under the writing life.
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I’d been planning to mirror some of the Universes posts over here, when they were of general interest (or what I conceive as general interest)  but someone mentioned they’d hate to go to the next place and find the same thing.

How about this:  any post that I mirror somewhere else will be labeled on both sides of the mirror:  “Mirrored at [whichever].”    Then wherever you hit it first, you’ll know where else it is and not to bother.   Would that solve the problem?  You’d miss any site-specific conversation, but you wouldn’t be bored by seeing something in two places.

To demonstrate how that would work, I will mirror the post about C.J. Cherryh being named to the SFWA Grandmaster list over here, with its notice, and add the notice at the other end as well.  Or rather, I’ll do that after I eat something.  (Sorry–gluttony before work, at this time of day.)   And maybe someone will have said NO, PLEASE NO or something to convince me it’s a bad idea.

5 Comments »

  • Comment by Daniel Glover — February 20, 2016 @ 8:03 am

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    It should. I’m still working out how best to start to get to all (most) of your content with a single landing page and then follow the tree branches from there. But then I think you are too still trying to get all the various linkages in place.

    Thanks. I am appreciating all your content.


  • Comment by Kathleen — February 20, 2016 @ 9:12 pm

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    Works for me.


  • Comment by Richard Simpkin — February 23, 2016 @ 6:34 am

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    I’m changing over to Universes blog as first port of call.


  • Comment by elizabeth — February 23, 2016 @ 9:20 am

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    Daniel: Yes. There will always be content that fits better here (or on one of the others) and won’t fit there (esp. since the Speed of Dark and 80 acres blog are very tightly focused) but I can plant links to/from them when something does apply.

    Kathleen: Good, glad to hear it. (And then I forgot to put the crosslinks on another post…DUH.)

    Richard: It will be the most active for now and speaking as the person who hasn’t been able to keep all my blogs anywhere close to up to date…I understand the desire to have one-stop-shopping.


  • Comment by KatrinaK — February 27, 2016 @ 12:34 pm

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    That works for me. I tend to read blogs by having either LiveJournal or Dreamwidth fetch the RSS feeds for me. Scrolling past any duplication is easy.


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