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Hello Peter, The www.sfdj.com/FAQ type of page set up "IS" what I had in mind. Also, please be aware that the South Florida Dive Journal was around long before Halcyon was, and it began to reflect DIR long before I knew anything about Halcyon. I still own www.sfdj.com myself, and no outside company controls what I place on it. I created it in 1995, going online in 1996 as the first photo format Dive Magazine on the Internet, and at the time, only a few sites like "Mosaic" existed with any significant photography---and they did it with tiny inline gifs, whereas my magazine utilized inline jpegs---this stimulating 100,000 sessions of web users per weekend, many of these in Silicon Valley, as this was among the first examples of a new medium....All this is only significant in that it helps clarify what the place of www.sfdj.com is.....it is a Dive Magazine that features South Florida Diving, and from its inception has attempted to help "EACH READER" attain the best dive experiences possible. DIR became the logical extension of this, and this is independent of any other business relationships I will ever have. While I do work for Brownies and Halcyon, SFDJ will continue to reflect MY values and interests, as well as Sandra's, and "No One" at Halcyon or EE would ever expect me to place anything on it I did not believe absolutely. In the future, should you read upcoming issues, you will see gear reviews regarding a number of manufacturers, chosen only for the quality they represent---this will include gear like freediving fins, long ignored in print magazines due to lack of ad budgets, but far superior to all traditional scuba fins for "Open Water" diving. There will be some regulator reviews, and some BC reviews, which will include Halcyon, but not be limited to them. I'll be asking various WKPP members like George Irvine and Bill Mee for their help in this for their lack of "job related bias". Dive boats and Hotels have made up the income stream that keeps the SFDJ online. SFDJ does not pay "my bills", in other words, it generates very little money, because this is not its objective....so no advertising clients will control reviews. The most exciting feature to me of upcoming issues, will be the place of SFDJ as a "Chronicle" of DIR Dive experiences of large groups due to visit South Florida, as they dive with George Irvine, Bill Mee, myself, and occasional visits from Jarrod Jablonski and/or Robert Carmichael, in some of the coolest underwater adventure sites we have here. . The DIR FAQ for the newcomer, is an obvious extension of the thousands of posts I have made over the last few years on rec.scuba, as a deja news search would show. In any event, I will work on a FAQ page for newcomers, and I think most tek list members who are familiar with my efforts so far, will not worry about mfg bias in this magazine. I welcome help anyone on this list would like to provide, and will be open to any suggestions on it. Regards, Dan Volker www.sfdj.com -----Original Message----- From: Peter Fjelsten [mailto:fjelsten@ma*.st*.dk*] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 11:34 AM To: Dan Volker Cc: Techdiver mailing list Subject: RE: Should we make a FAQ? Den 17:07 18-01-00 skrev Dan Volker: >This is probably something I should do, since I've been working on the DIR >issue with the rec.scuba crowd for 2 years now, and have placed a >considerable number of DIR articles for them on www.sfdj.com . > >I'll make the page. If anyone wants to help by sending me particularly >good >threads from the past they have saved, I'll be happy to use them. Dan, with all due respect I think the DIR FAQ should have a separate place on your server (e.g www.sfdj.com/FAQ) so that prople can access it without going through your journal. We have to make sure that nobody can attack DIR for being bedfellow with either Halcyon, EE, or whatever, wherefore I also think that the pictures should come from other places than the Halcyon catalog. Don't get me wrong, SFDJ/Halcyon/EE have done _a lot_ for DIR, but we don't want to give the strokes the possibility of writing off DIR based on a (too) close affiliation with some particular brands. Of course, we should make link is relevant places to relevant companies. There are some good articles on the WKPP web page. -- <regards="hilsen">Peter Fjelsten</regards> -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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