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Chapter 9: The Thought Experiment
8. Home Pages, Blogs, Portals
In keeping with the above-given structuring (p. 164), here all of the Internet sites, except for the Internet forums
(already treated on pages 172-187), will be presented, arranged according to the personal names or corporate
names of the operators or - in the event of a lack of such names - under the titles of the pages.
To give a more complete overview the previous promoters of the GOM project, those previously mentioned in
the text, are also added and their earlier treatment is referenced.
All Internet sites that represent no discussion forum are described, for the purposes of the following overview,
under three terms, that are formed in keeping with the following characterizations:
the home page (HP) presents essentially the texts and ideas of its operator, which does not exclude longer
quotes, extracts from the operator’s own works and occasionally also the presentation of complete works of other
authors;
the blog (Weblog) is the diary-like, continuous comments of its operator with respect to occurrences or topics,
often also with the possibility of comments from the reader;
the portal is normally dedicated to a specific topic or primary idea, is characterized by a variety of sub-topics,
texts and authors which can be organized like a magazine, a compilation or a dictionary and is editorially steered by
the operator of the portal.
All of the Internet sources quoted stem from the years 2004 ff. An exact dating of the cited Internet sources was
not attempted, since the quotes are only intended to give a general idea of the size and type of the reception of the
GOM publications, and not the details of the tendency and the resulting consequences. Anyone interested in these
details is in any case forced to rely on what the search engines can find at a later date.
Where none of the three typifications (HP, blog; portal) has been given, there was no such description
recognizable for the Internet site.
Wikipedia and Similar Encyclopaedias
As regards the instability of some Internet sources, this must be said in particular for the articles of Wikipedia in
the various languages. There, the supporters and the critics of theories and persons engage in continuous arguments
as to the sovereignty of the interpretations of the controversial articles, so that it is often the case that considerable
changes in the text can be made in a very short time. The reader can inform himself or herself about these in the
“Talk” or “Discussion” pages and in the recorded “Version Developments”. Occasionally individual aspects or
sub-topics are also outsourced to completely new articles under new titles.
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