At 08:54 PM 1/22/00 -0500, pcockram wrote: >As one of the people on the list conversant in electronic media, I would be >willing to contribute. I'm in the midst of job-search hell, but I'll start >thinking about it. Er, gentle metapoets, speaking as one whose whole life is the construction of websites, and technologies and standards for use therein, I counsel caution. A website should be launched with a degree of caution and seriousness appropriate to its subject. Thus if a group of buddies wished to launch a website dedicated to the clothing practices of Britney Spears, why not just do it? If you lose interest and the site falls into disuse and abandonment in a year or three, no great loss occurrs. But a site about a subject as monumental as EP should be, well, monumental. I.e. it would need careful planning and in particular must be built in such a way that its contents are likely to be there, and in the same place, for a really long time. To do otherwise would be a betrayal of the scholastic tradition. The construction and maintenance of such a website takes quite a lot of expertise, also technology infrastructure, also [blush] money, and finally, and most difficult to obtain, sustained and disciplined attention from one or more people who have technical insight and care about the subject matter. Having said all that, a really good Pound website would be great. And I'd love to see more Cantos online. By the way, any list members who don't know about http://miyamizu.lit.kobe-u.ac.jp/~hishika/pound.htm should go have a look at it. Cheers, Tim