2007.09.01  -- Finally a thorough reconstruction of the site has started. The double entry system with Outline Navigation and Overview Matrix is too complicated. I had announced the latter’s end for long, but never done, because several people have asked me not to do it. Java script required for the outline is so broadly spread that I do no longer hesitate; and should somebody complain, I can add an outline open from start. I am am still waiting for the addition of an Expand All / Collapse All command exported to htm.

I think the site is operating rather well and, considering its content and scope, called reasonably often. What I miss is more feedback. I understand that some people, especially scientists, may not like it and take for a lunatic. But once they would understand how much simpler the world can be understood on the basis of encounters rather then of lawful trajectories, they might consider it, as soon as enough scientist do it at the same time, because nobody like to be left alone.

2003.12.15 -- I am learning CSS and a few more basic things enabling me to modernize the pages with fewer error prone links than they had so far. The Navigation Outline will become a real center of everything. I imagine that readers browsing the site will have it open for Some time. I have renounced the idea of making a frameset since this brings unneeded complications and has an uncertain future. All pages will open in an new window. And from every page there will be just one link back to the Outline. (For the passage time also to the old Overview Matrix.) On the other hand, this gives me occastion to add in a larger number of papers links to the @lists of the fields the paper belongs to and 2 to 4 or 5 directly related other papers. So readers will have it much easier to inquire my pertinent papers once they have one that finds their interest.

2003.11.27 -- That I did not write here for more than four years does not mean nothing happened. But I have certainly neglected the site, for various reasons. I think already in 2000 I was dreaming (again) of a better navigation device for the site in the form of an outline, similar to the finder in the Mac or my principal writing and thinking tool since 1987 MORE of Dave Winer and colleagues. But I could'nt find something adequate. In 2001 I saw Joust, a Java Script. It worked well only with small number of lines and was soon not longer maintained. In spring 2003 the Active Renderer within Radio Userland (of Dave Winer) was operative, but not only was Radio too complicated for me but it obviously was not well supported in the pursuing months. I talked with Hubert Studer about the situation and he adviced me to go in Radio and ask David Bayly. Now earlier this November I was contacting David and he suggested something on the basis of Manila, also of Userland too. I find this too complex for me.

Below are some selected statistics of the period, again based on a 3-month window and based on mininal request frequency of 50 per page. The single pages present some of the most called. Data for January (added in time) will already fall into the passage to Outline Navigation.

 

	199908	2000 09	2001 11	2002  11	2003 10	2006 08	2007 08	2008	200x	200x
Total of requested papers per day	5057	11890	13585	13902	15258	38592	36955
outline index	-	-	-	-	613	1121	1264
Overview	265	464	612	386	2955	438	376	-	-	-
pages  per day	146	185	132	106	97	223	241
@chronological	85	206	146	206	170	449	576
@semeco	62	138	145	81	108	255	247
@time		219	285	287	454	67	113
Abolutgehör	32	70	228	76	76	85	84
Abschiedsvorl.	108	212	269	291	240	333	189
Ende Arbeitswelt	104	176	156	180	124	211	160
Fluss & Zustand	65	110	104	95	105	136	198
Gemeinsch. Vereins.	95	116	228	226	274	456	467
Herder MB	67	156	258	228	142	428	303
Lewin-Vygo+Genesereihe	62	108	134	115	151	159	283
Mensch Compputer	74	239	288	327	436	339	447
Parapsych	61	157	321	285	299	253	198
Semiotik Grundfr.	32	44	141	288	405	134	70
Grundfr. allg. Psy	-	-	1507	1413	1448	1670	1241
Grundfr.spez. Psy	-	-	1009	851	1184	1135	115
Wohnproj. I	-	-	-	110	79	?	60
Wohnproj. II	-	-	-	328	804	1033	676
semeco-outline	-	-	-	-	-	102	94
semeco-essay total	-	-	-	-	-	152	184
umbruch total	-	-	-	-	-	-	244

Requests per 90 days (>50 calls)	nov 98 -jan 99	dec 98 - feb 99	feb - apr 99	mar - mai 99	mai - jul 99	jun - aug 99	sep -nov 99
Emblem 25	1826	1615	1729	1625	1408	1430	3304
Overview	341	314	279	303	285	265	3304
total pages	8115	7882	9688	7710	6273	7296	13113
per day	91.2	89.6	110.1	84.7	69.7	81.1	147.3
pertains to n pages	223	226	230	192	169	196	238

Data based on Provider Statistics of 3 summer months overall for the site and for papers called at least 50 times during the 90 days window.

 

Papers deserving more attention may be: Bildungswert Informatik etc, Diagnostik und Autonomie etc., Europa-Anliegen, Neue Philosophische Fakultät, Person & Kultur etc. Dass Arbeiten über Probleme und Zukunft der Psychologie eher wenig gelesen werden, zeigt wohl, dass die Mehrzahl der Interessenten nicht Psychologen sind. Anderseits scheinen die Semiotiker noch nicht aufmerksam geworden zu sein: wie kann und soll ich diese doch ganz neue, realistische Semiotik zugänglich machen?

1998.12.06 --- Statistics of 66 days: 1891 (28.7 per day) requests for Emblem25, 298 (4.5) for Overview. Vita has now 298 requests, FieldDescriptions remains on the 80 level; so use is content sensible. The Stumpf page has almost a visitor per day. The best visited pages as Lewin&Vygotsky (184), Parapsy (121), Abschiedsvorl. (81) and Herder-Menschenbild (79); 8 additional papers range between 50 and 70. No statistics available below 50 requests

1998.11.18 --- The header improvement has the desired effect to bring most of the pertinent information in the search machines' short excerpts. Vita improved and enriched with various fotographs. Learning how to clean the site up there by deleting out of use files manually.

1998.10.31 --- Site 3 month statistics shows 1920 or 21.3 per day requests for Emblem25 which is on every page except Overview and Emblem, 366 or 4 per day for Overview, 261 for Lewin&Vygotsky and from 50 to 250 requests for about 2 dozen papers or lists. Interest felt for knowing what is read, even if only a few times.

1998.10.31 --- The site has now 398 files, 194 papers, 148 graphs, 31 @lists, and 25 operation files (from index and overview to site history and events) for a total of 12.5 MB.

1998.10.24 --- Improvements on the black and yellow header design; start of revision of the now roughly 400 pages (12MB) of the site; additions of guest paper folder, glossary (placeholder), biographic material.

1998.08.31 --- Emeritierung, Ende des Universitätsamts.

1998.08.06 --- Redesign of page header, black and yellow design; test phase to check whether the important info is adequately mediated by the search machines.

1998.06.30 --- Additions of farewell lecture and Herder Menschenbild, interviews on the occasion of retirement.

1998.06.23 --- Farewell lecture and publication of the Festschrift CD-ROM.

1998.03.28 --- Start of weekly installments of lecture notes on Semiotic Ecology for use of the participants (unable to keep pace to the end of the semester).

1998.03.25 --- Christine Happle, one of my students presently at Mike Cole's Lab, announces the website to the XMCA community.

1998.03.15 --. Making public the website among the Bernese academic public in the Psychology Department and the Humanities Faculty.

1998.03.12 --- Re-Actualization of the site and opening public access under my own management (in view of the time without co-workers), approx. 7 MB.

1998.02.15 - 30 --- During vacation in Palermo, Sicily, and following weeks: improvements and additions.

1998.02.27 --- First installation of Langpapers Website on the Univ. of Bern's Unix Server after some editing work by Hubert Studer, approx. 4 MB

1998.02.10 --- First draft of Website with overview matrix, some metapages and some 100 papers ready for test run with group members and interested students. Done with a Demo version of Claris Home Page 3.0 (and license from v.2.0).

1997.12.20 - 98.01.22 --- Thinking through possible synergies of Festschrift (in form of a CD) and Website projects; basic thematic design of the langpapers site; preparation of the first batch of files constituting the site.

1997.12 --- Asked by members of my group to design a structure for presenting my own papers in view of making some of them accessible in/on their CD-ROM Festschrift on the occasion of my retirement from office.

1995 --- Started thinking of own Website and made first plans for a structure following my proper interests in relation to the system of sciences and ideas.

1993 --- Contributing to the Peirce List of Joe Ransdell.

1991 --- Got serious on the Internet with the help of XLCHC, Mike Cole's eXtended Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition.

1980s --- Published software reviews and articles on human-computer-interface and computers in society; promoted distributed net structures in higher education system as a means to ease civil emancipation.

1979 --- Got my first Micro, a Z80 based "Sorcerer" with a magnificent WordProcessor on ROM called "Spellbinder".

1970s --- Read about Xerox Parc project and was day-dreaming about useful machines.

1958 --- Learnt programming (Assembler, Basic, Fortran) and using (student self operating) a then big computer, a BULL machine.

1950s --- Was day-dreaming of a machine to take with me (e.g. in a "camper", i.e. a Wohnauto that could also go on water and in the air) giving immediate access to the world's literature, music, and art and allowing me to communicate with any other human beings anywhere.