With links! Story, Poem and IP of the week

Thats not what I said. And you've already made that "joke" on another thread. For fucks sake.

Tony,

If you run a website and you want people to click on bits of it, you need to make it as easy for them as possible.

Less effort, more hits.

You've run websites for seven years so this shouldn't really be big news.

I think, on a previous thread, Liana was suggesting putting the full Inspiration Point text back directly on the home page.

A sensible suggestion as currently new users to the site coming to the home page have to guess what an Inspiration Point is and then click on it.

It's not unreasonable to suggest that this is a factor in it being used less.

'You've run websites for seven years so this shouldn't really be big news.'

Well, you'd think....

hahahahhahaa ... oh dear tc ... not sure it's such a good idea to insult your readers with such sarcasm ... hahahahahaa ...

All the greatest landlords are sarky bastards...

I think some anger therapy might be needed.

Bless you Hannah. Always with an eye to the good.

i know some really good therapy for anger ... you sing a song that goes - 'you're a cunt ... you're a cunt ... you're a very big cunt ... you're the biggest cunt in the whole wide world ...' in the style of South Park ...

THEN ... whenever anyone mentions the object of your anger you say ... 'god if he turned up here, now ...i would STAB him!'

it's fantastically therapeutic ...

or HER ...

I'm soooooo looking forward to the Brighton event next weekend.

will you be wanting a live rendition?

I very much enjoyed the poem and the story this week. I have nothing clever and critical to add, I just ate too much strawberry and apple crumble to contemplate that, but thank you hejira-j and macjoyce...

Links are just pleasant things...like chocolate sprinkles on your cappucino...a courtesy...a treat...

Now I'm going to read the story, poem and IP of the week. But perhaps not before we find out who's won 'Britain's Got Talent'...back soon...

'will you be wanting a live rendition?'

Only if there is live pointing too...

I am filled with mortification for my dire and desperate insult at the clicking abilities of members. I have sung the song, flagellated myself all over and will forever put in clicky things.

Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.

I still don't think he 'gets' it, do you?

Tony,

For me, this is a small symptom of a wider problem.

The question is whether you want ABC or any other website you provide to be a business/service or an informal gift from you to some people.

If you invited some friends and family round to your house for a buffet meal, you'd be rightly miffed if they refused to get out of their chairs and put food on their plates, but insisted instead that you selected the food you thought they'd want and brought it to them.

On the other hand, if you ran a business which increased its chances of revenue generation based on the number of guests who turned up and tucked into pork pies and hula hoops on your premises, this would be a very sensible thing to do.

I get frustrated by your unbusinesslike approach to business because you keep telling me that want to run a business - rather than a valuable website than doesn't generate income - and I'd like to see you succeed.

I think David is right (no, really). This, of course, is only a very small item but the fact that TC chose to ridicule the idea and then accept it with such terribly poor grace, perhaps indicates that he thinks people are being precious rather than trying to help. Even his apology was ludicrously patronising.

ABC could be more commercially viable and be a greater resource for writers if only there was someone genuinely at the helm, rather than someone (who may be well-meaning and generous), occasionally piping up when time permits.

Well done to the writers. I believe that's what we're here for?
Good story, Macjoyce. Remind me never to ask you how your holiday went.
Gareth.

Good choices for SoW and PoW. I thought MacJoyce's piece was particularly good, although I found the tone a little smart-arsey in places. I quite like smart-arses though so it's all good.

Sorry that's not a more considered critique.

I loved MacJoyce's piece! What a treat to read...

I didn't find it as much 'smart-arsey' as honest and well rooted in its narrative flow. The instensity and claustrophobia was conveyed very effectively. There were one or two stylistic things that I thought I could have done without, but that's incidental to the whole, which was a success, I thought. There's possibly room for some minor restructuring and tidying.

I love things that mix cultural consciousnesses...and offset similar places in different continents (in this piece, the travelling experience on arrival back in London), you get a lot from all the levels that are going on.

It was sort of E M Forster meets Paul Merton...

Have you watched Paul Merton in China? I loved that.

I'm also a big fan of Louis Theroux's telly stuff...

Good choice for story of the week.

I am genuinely sorry if I offended - it was only a small joke and of course I take the point that we need to reduce clicks in order to make money.