The end.
After eight
years, I've decided to pull the plug on the
Fullervision Newslog.
Words of Note from the Desk of J. Myrle Fuller
October 19, 2011
Dear readers,
For the past eight years I have operated and maintained
a newslog on this Web site, dating back to my days in
high school. The time has come for this to end.
Effective immediately, the Fullervision Newslog will no
longer be regularly updated in its current form.
Unlike most instances like this, the issue is not
money, at least directly. I have never made a dime off
this site and pay only a nominal cost to keep it up and
running. I don't believe an enterprise like this is
profitable, and the amount of money required to support
this as a professional venture is far beyond the
community's ability to pay. This has been a public
service.
The first issue at hand is time, or simply, lack
thereof. The big day around here for most activities is
Saturday afternoon and evening, and alas, my current
work schedule (much to my chagrin, by the way, but I
seem to be the only one able to do it) prevents me from
being active in the things that go on in this community.
The work schedule also prevents me from attending many
of the local governments' board meetings as I have in
the past. When I started this site, I had Saturdays and
most nights off; while the latter is still true, the
former is not. The second is that with social
networking, I have found more effective ways of
disseminating local information and news to what I
believe is a broader audience than the one that came to
this site. More on this later.
The third reason why I'm discontinuing the newslog is a
lack of focus. It has been a struggle for me to keep
this site updated with any level of consistency with
stories that I find interesting. Whenever there's a
topic du jour
that seems to blanket the local media but doesn't have
much pertinence to people around here, that gets drowned
out. Then there's the times of slow news (which happen a
lot around here) when there's nothing to report for days
and sometimes weeks on end. I've also tried at various
times to incorporate various stories of national and
more regional scope into the newslog, but most of the
time I haven't had much satisfaction in the results.
Keep in mind, please, that this decision does not
affect the other parts of this site. I will continue to update
my weekly weather forecasts every Saturday morning;
the weather forecasts are not part of the shutdown and,
for most purposes, I imagine will become the new focal
point of the site. The archives of the newslog will stay
up on the Web site as well; I will also continue to
issue the annual holiday guides and other miscellanea
I've built over the years. Fullervision.net as a Web
site will remain up and fully operational for the
foreseeable future. There will also be times, I am sure,
when I reactivate the newslog in a sense for major news
events that the social media platforms are not a good
fit for covering. This will be in a format somewhat
reminiscent of the "special reports" I issued back in
the early days of the site.
I will continue to aggregate and follow stories that I
find interesting, reporting on them as I feel led. For
stories pertaining to the town and village of Little
Valley, I am a co-editor of the Facebook Little Valley
page (http://www.facebook.com/littlevalleyny),
which is updated regularly. For other miscellaneous
stories, I have recently increased my output on Twitter
(http://www.twitter.com/fullerwx).
Fullervision.net has an official Facebook page of its
own (http://www.facebook.com/fullervision)
that you can like as well. I'm currently pondering ideas
and ways to archive the content I put on the social
platforms for posterity and easier navigation.
Just to clarify something: Fullervision is not dead.
I'm just moving it in a new direction. I thank all of
you for your support and ask for it in the months and
years to come.
Sincerely,
J. Myrle Fuller
Editor, publisher, owner and founder