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9/26/2003 07:16:00 PM | Timothy Why Buzzflood should intentionally be left blank No need to read this if you have read Jon's protest against Buzzforce below, and have sent your agreement to stoptheflood@alum.dartmouth.org. But if you are not yet convinced Buzzforce is a silly operation, read on for one small example. You may remember that Buzzflood was originally named Blabberforce, until Dartlog revealed John Buckholz's discovery of another college consulting group already named Blabberforce. How did Blabberforce react? They quickly proclaimed that a deliberation about a name change had been in works for a month and after "hundreds of bad suggestions" they had decided to rename themselves Buzzflood. Way to bounce back, P.R. boys! According to an email posted on The Dartmouth Observer and Dartlog, Buzzflood will soon give more information about the excellence of Dartmouth through "the launch of our new website (www.buzzflood.com) that will further our goal." So I decided to visit www.buzzflood.com. All that popped up on the screen was "This page has intentionally been left blank." Clicking further I had found out this was part of the this-page-is-intentionally-left-blank" project, in remembrance of old test taking booklets: Nowadays the "This Page Intentionally Left Blank"-Project (TPILB-Project) tries to introduce these blank pages to the Web again. One reason is to keep alive the remembrance of these famous historical blank pages. But it is the primary reason to offer internet wanderers a place of quietness and simplicity on the overcrowded World Wide Web -- a blank page for relaxing the restless mind."How fitting: if any webpage should intentionally be left blank, it is buzzflood.com. EDIT: In the original version of this post, I had said "It seems the excellent Buzzflooders either sent out the wrong URL, or hadn't even bothered to check if the domain name was available." For this, I said the Buzzflooders had once again seemed to get ahead of themselves. Sylvia in comments makes this point: "actually i think buzzflood.com (and .org) is owned by the dartmouth group.. if you check where the domains are registered to it gives a hinman box address. they probably just set up a redirect while their website is in the works." I thought the intentionally-left-bank group bought up domain names in order to keep them permanently blank. But there was no reason for that assumption. Buzzflood could just have a temporary pointer to their website until they get their own site up. Oops. I still think it is funny that they point to a page that wants quiet space on the web, when that is the opposite of what they intend to do. But I think they knew what they were doing, and I am the one who feels like an idiot. perma link |
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