The whole thing is run by human beings

Reactions from Clampe's students is required reading. Very, very few websites are so blessed as to receive feedback from people who left, let alone from those who would never have joined if they had the choice.

E2 cannot succeed until it has a definition of failure.

Index of my daylogs

• November 19, 2002 - nonfiction - The Meal Game
• November 22, 2002 - fiction - a pattern in the stock market
• December 13, 2002 - fiction - Time Loop
• December 20, 2002 - fiction - Bagel story, part one
• January 25, 2003 - fiction - noisy neighbours
• February 25, 2003 - nonfiction - rant about linear mathematics
• March 9, 2003 - fiction - It, Robot, part 1
• March 21, 2003 - fiction - It, Robot, part 1.5
• April 10, 2002 - nonfiction - cheesecake challenge
• August 27, 2003 - fiction - It, Robot, part 2
• December 19, 2003 - nonfiction - Cheese vodka
• December 20, 2003 - fiction - Bagel story, part two
• April 3, 2004 - fiction - Be Here Now, part one
• April 11, 2004 - fiction - Be Here Now, part two
• April 17, 2004 - fiction - Be Here Now, part three
• April 24, 2004 - fiction - Be Here Now, part four
• May 1, 2004 - fiction - Be Here Now, part five
• October 25, 2004 - fiction - Sirens
• January 14, 2008 - fiction - a message to f1r3br4nd
• April 13, 2005 - nonfiction - Everything2 needs a forum
• August 5, 2005 - nonfiction - in which Sam interviews for a position at Data Connection
• June 2, 2006 - nonfiction - breaking my own fourth wall
• July 17, 2006 - nonfiction - my dinner with stickmen
• March 17, 2007 - nonfiction - The time has come for me to not leave E2
• July 17, 2007 - nonfiction - Multimedia E2
• October 1, 2007 - fiction - my worst nightmare
• January 4, 2008 - nonfiction - proposed new levelling system
• January 30, 2008 - nonfiction - new job
• June 12, 2008 - nonfiction - E2 is no longer cool
• August 22, 2008 - nonfiction - and another thing
• April 7, 2009 - nonfiction - Copenhagen daylog
• April 8, 2009 - nonfiction - Copenhagen daylog
• April 9, 2009 - nonfiction - Copenhagen daylog
• April 10, 2009 - nonfiction - Copenhagen daylog
• April 11, 2009 - nonfiction - Copenhagen daylog
• April 12, 2009 - nonfiction - Copenhagen daylog
• February 2, 2010 - nonfiction - The Making Of Fine Structure
• April 13, 2010 - fiction - If You Are Reading This
• October 6, 2010 - nonfiction - So what's wrong with the front page blurb, anyway?
• August 25, 2011 - nonfiction - bring back borging
• September 29, 2011 - nonfiction - The argument for comment threads under writeups

Editor-cooled writeups

• trigonometric ratios
• E2 Nuke Request (talk about lucky)
• bouncy castle
• Equilibrium
• James Bond's gadgets
• 24
• Futurama timeline
• How to destroy the Earth
• Standing on a mountaintop in northern Siberia under the rapidly descending bulk of asteroid McAlmont, with a calculating expression and a baseball bat
• October 25, 2004
• Incomplete two-word sentences with which to end your life
• December 20, 2002
• Prosenoder's Cup 2007
• Forgotten things in space
• Fine Structure
• The Airplane-Treadmill Problem
• March 17, 2007
• Last Ergs
• Everything2 is not Wikipedia

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