A 20,000 visitor/day non-commercial site doesn't build itself, and, more
depressingly, doesn't run itself.
I guess I should express thanks first of all to
Hewlett-Packard (especially),
Intel,
and
Sun Microsystems
for donating the 3500 lbs. of server hardware that sit behind this site.
Next to Doug and Jim for writing AOLserver. Packets reach your
desktop because of quiet diurnal heroism among the network
administrators in the
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
(actually for that matter, it was MIT LCS folks like Dave Clark who
wrote the TCP/IP spec and made Internet possible).
It is my ongoing
relationship with
Hearst
New Media that
made it possible for me to develop the database-backed collaboration services.
As far as credit for the content goes, that begins and ends with you,
the reader. This whole site started because readers of
Travels with Samantha emailed me so many
photography questions. I figured that it would be easier to just put up
a few pages with my answers than continue to write custom
responses. I was such a sloppy writer that my pages ended
up raising more questions than they answered. So the email flood grew
and I wrote more pages. Then I put up the
Q&A Forum to capture these informal exchanges.
Some people have been kind enough to contribute content more directly,
e.g., as HTML files or extensive comments on my content server. These
include Bob Atkins, Don Baccus, Richard Caruana, Jon Grepstad, Glen E. Johnson, Hamish
Reid, Ed Scott, Tim Takahashi, Phil Wherry, Paul Wilson (I probably missed a few
names in my casual grep). But everyone who contributes a point of view
in the Q&A Forum or an experience in
Neighbor to Neighbor or even
a classified ad is helping.
High quality PhotoCD scanning can get expensive when you have 7000
on-line images but
Boston Photo Lab
and
Advanced Digital Imaging have
run a lot of slides and negs for free in order to make some particularly
important sub-sites come alive.
Photo: elephant seal from the
California site I keep promising
to finish. A beach a bit north of the Hearst Castle (San Simeon).
Canon EOS-5, 35-350L zoom, Fuji Super G+ 400.
philg@mit.edu
