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Series
File Under: /web/series
The web is littered with incomplete projects, and there's no reason for it. Typically, the author of a podcast, webcomic, art or even written blog series simply grows tired of keeping an open-ended project alive. Updating drops off, then links die or the server stops responding. Lives change and obsessions evolve, but why should so many great projects die a heat death?
Ignore the web for a moment and think about television. Television series are finite. Even "Meet the Press" (USA), "Coronation Street" (UK) or "Hockey Night" (Canada) are purchased by their respective broadcasters in set batches of episodes. These are called "series" in the UK, or, a bit less accurately, "seasons" in the US.
It's a good model. Rather than simply beginning an open-ended project, why not commit to a set "series?" If the project is successful, commit to another series. If interest wanes, tie it off at the expected ending and move onto something new.
To help with the process, I've dashed up a little web 2.0 gizmo. Input episode number, total series length, and series number (if applicable), then copy and paste the code for a little button into the entry's page on your site. JavaScript is required to produce buttons but not to display them, though older versions of Internet Explorer may have trouble displaying them correctly without running the included script.
Happy serializing.
Copy and paste this code into your page:
>HP: 0
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