Brass Lantern - Website News

                      From John Ferris

After the changes to the Interactive Fiction archive comes another
change to a famous adventure web site.

Since 1997 Stephen Granade has edited a well-respected adventure
column on the Mining Company site which became About.com a year or
so ago. The original aim of what became About.com was to provide a
web site with regularly changing content on many subjects, such as
hobbies, science, law computing, religion and even computer games.
Essentially, they paid people like Stephen to produce regular
content so that the site could generate income through
advertising. It's the standard "honey pot" concept of advertising
in popular places, magazines, newspapers, TV, Radio and the like.

Stephen provided a regular and wide ranging update on the
Internet world of Interactive Fiction until About.com pulled the
plug on him and many other sites deemed to be so unpopular as not
to be profitable. I've heard this story in an adventure context
before.

Stephen has returned with:

http://brasslantern.org

This site is run by Stephen alone and again provides wide- ranging
coverage on all things IF/Adventure related. Like his former site,
you can subscribe to an email newsletter as well.  And not an
advert in sight.








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