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Saturday, January 1, 2000
Ftrain 2
By Paul Ford
01/00-05/00: Perhaps it can be done correctly this time. Selections from Ftrain.com's second round, the author's third, slightly-less-struggling (and suddenly database-driven) attempt at creating a narrative on the Web.
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The sophomore Web effort, this time implemented in XML and Perl, with a terrible, frame-based interface and lots of embarassing stories and an emphasis on volume rather than quality. Search hard for subtlety in the writing; it's in there, but purely by accident. The entire project is in a weird “narrative” order, not chronological; I had this great idea that I would organize everything into “books” and “chapters” but at that point I didn't really know what I was doing, and I inflicted my ignorance on my audience, who would occasionally drop me emails that read “why doesn't this make any sense?”
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