[FM Discuss] From Marc on WordPress docs

[mick fuzz]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Marc Beneteau <marc at manifesting.net> wrote:

> **
> Mick and all --
>
> Ok looks like we are on the same page here (others feel free to chime-in),
> initial handshake succeeded.  No one has responded to the question of where
> to send the affiliate links, so I guess we'll just send them to Mick
> for co-ordinating all of this ;)
>

I have to admit that the reason that I didn't reply was because I didn't
know what affiliate links were. From the stuff I've read it seems to
normally be linked to a affiliate marketing programme. So I'm a bit
confused. Is this a money thing or can it also be used to describe where you
send traffic after they come to your site. I've not got any real experience
of that kind of thing.

In terms of motivation. I wanted to get this stuff updated as I do use it
for training pretty regularly or at least I have in the past, and I've been
paid to do some writing for different bits of it - a bit on the podcasting
stuff for tactical tech - and some generally for blogging for a company that
I used to work for people's voice media. I may end up getting paid to do
other stuff like this, ie getting a citizen toolkit together for a community
network, maybe not, who knows.

But I also do a lot of voluntary work in the area of citizen journalism and
I'm currently working on a project to give anonymous blogs to activists as
the UK police have gone a bit bonkers about social media - check this out.
Facebook riot calls earn men four-year jail terms amid sentencing outcry
Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan, 22, of Latchford, Warrington, used his Facebook
account in the early hours of 9 August to design a web page entitled The
Warrington Riots. The court was told it caused a wave of panic in the town.
When he woke up the following morning with a hangover, he removed the page
and apologised, saying it had been a joke. His message was distributed to
400 Facebook contacts, but no rioting broke out as a result.
*http://tinyurl.com/44y6e5r*

Yes, that's pretty bad! 4 years! You should hear my riot special radio show
- now that's incitement!
Anyway, It's one thing to complain about it but another offer alternatives
so we have set up http://network23.org - to offer anonmous blogs where
people can wake up after their drunk incitement without getting arrested -
and maybe for more legitimate activities as well.

So part of the motivation is to document the process for setting this up so
it can be replicated easily by other communities, and to use the
documentation as a way of promoting the ideas of control, federation and
security on the Web.

So in some ways if we are talking about affiliate links being used to
promote something it might be something like this book we wrote on the open
web which deals with some of these aspects. http://openweb.flossmanuals.net/-

Another motivation for writing this book is to explore different ways of
trying to create the conversation, motivation and momentum needed to
complete a really good introductory manual to something in with a
geographically disparate group, in a time when every is busy etc. I want to
try this out because I think that when there isn't a strong will by the
community that develop the software to write good beginner manuals, then it
becomes something that a loosely federated network or people that use docs
to do training regularly can maintain.
This is an experiment on how to best try to get a critical mass of people
together to make it happen.

It's kind of building momentum. It's a shame that I'm now off the Internet
for a week (rural France) - but it would be great if people wanted to step
in to try to keep the conversation and momentum going!

If you are new to this list please do introduce yourselves and pitch in any
new ideas for chapters or use this list to get feed back on anything you
write.



> I didn't realize the current book was as advanced as it is, so let me
> clarify my intention, I want to create a "WordPress Quick Start Guide" that
> lives up to the promise of "your first site in 3 hours" ie it needs to be
> super-compact but also fairly comprehensive.  This could perhaps be a single
> chapter in Mick's latest "Version 2" below, so would require some massaging
> of the table of contents, but I think we can make it work.  The total
> project is more ambitious which is a practical wordpress reference /
> userguide and I am in favor of that too.
>

Cool, thanks for your clarification on that -  the Quick Start Guide sound
great.

nice one
see you all soon enough!
Mick
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