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Dear Frank and others,<div><br></div><div>I think the new journal looks fantastic, and I think that having some forum there is a really good idea, but there are huge issues with real Wordpress-like on-line journals, one of which is the referencing (no page numbers = mucho dolor), the fonts (limited..., and no, let's not start the romanisation debate here) and the lay-out. Another problem is the potential modem-burning size of some of the articles. For those articles that do use film snippets, for example, the true on-line delivery format would be perfect, but for those of us who do not have South Korea-like Internet, it would still be great to have basic-quality PDFs for download (avoiding freezing up systems). I am sure the editors will still be developing the different formats of delivery, but for me personally, having easily reference-able (bad English, I know), nicely laid-out PDFs is great. </div><div><br></div><div>Just my two cents worth...</div><div><br></div><div>Roald </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 6 Jan 2010, at 12:39, Frank Hoffmann wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>The editors welcome submissions and feed-back</div> </blockquote></blockquote><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Congratulations! Just one short note: It would be so much nicer if "on-line" would really mean that the journal is online -- in the sense that we can in addition to downloading (not so important) actually read articles in a web browser. They could easily be put onto the Web using WordPress or a similar program. PDF files are not exactly a product of the spirit of the Internet (and our times as such), rather a technical hangover, a digital remake and exact imitation of paper publishing, doing nothing but providing paper publications in digital format, so that they can be distributed for printing. This process inevitably imitates all the hierarchies, conventions, and limitations that come with paper publishing. Furthermore, there is no FORUM at the journal's website, and therefore no way to respond to the published articles, no way to get into a creative dialogue. What then is the difference to a paper journal? Your published announcement at least points into another direction. This conventional frame of publishing then seems to -- quite completely -- undermine the journal's approach. I would therefore suggest to change the format of publication and to open your site up for a public discussion.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best wishes,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Frank</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--------------------------------------</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Frank Hoffmann</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://koreaweb.ws">http://koreaweb.ws</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </blockquote></div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Book Antiqua'; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">______________________________</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Verdana" size="2" color="#00007f" style="font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(0, 0, 127); ">Dr. Roald H. 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