A Master List of My Websites

THE DEVELOPMENT OF 8000+ INTERNET SITES
AT WHICH I POST: 2001-2011
Preamble:

Part I:
I have tried in what follows--in this 18 page(font-14) 8,000 word document--to
provide a developmental outline of the internet posting process in which I have
been engaged for the last decade. Some of my rational for this extensive work is
also included. If desired I can provide an extensive list of the sites at which I
have posted in the years 2001 to 2011. The list is a reasonably comprehensive
one of the websites where I have posted my writing, made postings with content
on a range of subjects and/or responded to people about some aspect of the
Bahá’í Faith as well as other topics and issues. These lists provide information
relevant to the internet tasks I have been, and am now, engaged in on many
subjects and causes, some related to the Baha’i Faith and some not.
The information below is, for the most part, for my own record. I do not expect
the average person/s or institution/group to whom I happen to send this
document and who begins to read it to take it all in. I have sent a copy of the list
of over 100 pages to a very small handful of people and institutions: (a) whom I
thought would find it useful and/or (b) who have asked to have a copy of this
list. Given the fact that 100 pages is a massive quantity of information and
really beyond the relevance and interest of most people I have written this
shorter statement.
Readers should not make any attempt to grasp the detail here, even of this
abbreviated account, since it goes to nearly 20 pages as of 1 June 2011. On 1
June 2011 I brought this document up-to-date and it stands as it is in a virtually
compete state—at least as far as it seemed necessary. The interest of others, if
they have any interest at all, is most probably in terms of a general overview of
my internet work. Each person, of course, will get a different sense of that
overview, its meaning and relevance to their internet work and the teaching
work in general. Readers are advised to just pass on when the going gets
tough, when the labyrinth of information here gets too twisted and complex to
take in. Readers should just try and obtain the most general of pictures of what
they find here and the 1000s of hours of time represented by what is located on
the more than 8000 sites at which I post. As I say, I have not listed these sites in
this summary statement for fear of prolixity, but I can provide the list if desired.

In addition, there are many sites where I post my writing and engage in
dialogue on issues and with content which are not included on my list. When
one deals with a number of sites of the order of 8000+, and when they are
listed and commented on briefly as I do, it is only too obvious that the exercise
is a massive one involving literally millions of words. The processes involved in
my internet posting and publishing are complex and extensive and I try in this
document to provide a general and as comprehensive a picture of my activity
for anyone who is interested. Keeping a detailed, accurate and comprehensive
list of all my postings became beyond my capacity or interest by degrees by the
end of the first decade of this 3rd
millennium, that is by 1.1.’11. But a sketch is
found here for anyone taking some general interest, a sketch in these nearly 20
A-4 pages, and the sketch is sufficiently detailed to be of use to anyone who
does take a serious interest in my work on the internet and takes an interest in:
(a) doing any similar work drawing on the approach I have taken herein, or (b)
advising others who might entertain the possibility of: engaging in teaching and
consolidation work, service and social activism processes on the net in ways
similar to my own.
I have taken only a mild interest in record keeping, an interest which leads to
maintaining a modicum of order within this vast system of writing on the
internet, writing as I say which involves literally millions of words and is now
in 2011 the equivalent of perhaps 50 volumes at 80,000 words per volume.
What is found here is, therefore, not totally comprehensive, but provides a
reasonably complete picture. The lists of sites are intended to sketch this
general picture of my work on the WWW, give those interested in what work I
do a perspective on how they might locate my writings and, hopefully, see for
themselves the wonderful opportunities for publishing and/or dialogue that are
available to them should they desire to interact with others on the net is more
than a superficial and relatively abbreviated way.
The word publish is quite an accurate term for the internet work that I do.
Readers who just want to survey what I have done in more detail for whatever
reason can write to me at my email address: ronprice9@gmail.com. I am only
too happy to forward to them a list of the 8000+ sites at which I have posted my
writing and give them a full account of the process as it has evolved in the last
decade since I have not included that list and that process in detail below in this
statement.

I have written what follows for my own interest and record keeping as much as
anyone else’s, as I say, so that I may find information I need to keep up with my
particular pattern of burgeoning internet posting. This accessibility of data,
this account of what I have done, is useful both to me and, I hope, to others.
Since it is a work-in-progress so to speak, this account helps me keep some hold
on this labyrinthine process. The following outline is one I have written and
revised many times in the last ten years: 2001-2011. I have tried to keep it up-
to-date with data because I really think I am onto something very valuable for
those who want to be of value in our world of trouble and woe by utilizing their
writing skills. It is exciting to me and, if I can transfer some of this excitement
to others, that would be valuable in its own right.
My story on the internet began insensibly in the late 1990s when I first had my
own website and when I was about to retire from FT employment. The story
goes through to 2011 with a special focus on the two Five Year Plans: 2001-
2006 and 2006-2011 as well as the new FYP which began in April 2011. There
are now, as I indicated above, about 8000+ sites involved in this exercise and,
given this massive number of sites, my presence at most of them is relatively
thin because I try to scatter the seeds wide among many sites. This is not
always the case, though, and at some sites I have a strong presence. There are
now literally hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, accessing my
writings in varying degrees of interest and extent.
These 20 pages of descriptive prose are intended, then, to provide an
explanation to readers, give them a taste, a sample, of the sites involved1
and
how I go about what I am doing on the internet. These lists1
will serve as my
base for a future of internet posting and teaching that I find very satisfying.
Teaching the Faith, the Bahá’í Faith, has always been a very important part of
my life. This list will serve, too, as a base/framework for any interested person,
as I say, to find out more about this internet work, the latest chapter of my
individual teaching initiative.-Ron Price-Updated On: 1 June 2011.
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1
The listing below of internet sites is set out in an organizational form that
divides the sites into Lists 1 to 5. It incorporates earlier lists in my computer
as far back as 2001. It takes the process of site listing to 1 June 2011. The 1st
list began in 2001; the 2nd list was composed mainly in 2002-2003; the 3rd
in
2004-5. The 4th
and 5th lists were made mainly from 2006 to 2011 for my
convenience and the convenience of the few readers who take an interest in this
work or to whom I send this information for their possible interest. Anyone
wanting these lists, now contained in summary fashion in this single document
of about 20 A-4 pages, can write to me and I will send them over 100 pages by
email since I have not included those 100+ pages here.
Part II:
GOOGLE-MICROSOFT
In the first year after I retired from FT work, July 1999 to July 2000, Google
officially became the world's largest search engine. With its introduction of a
billion-page index by June 2000 much of the internet's content became available
in a searchable format at one search engine. In the next several years, 2000-
2005, as I was retiring from PT work as well as casual and most volunteer
activity that had occupied me for decades, Google entered into a series of
partnerships and made a series of innovations that brought their vast internet
enterprise billions of users in the international marketplace. Not only did
Google have billions of users, but internet users like myself throughout the
world gained access to billions of web documents in Google’s growing
index/library.
This new technological library was a finer and more useful library than any of
those in the small towns where I would spend my retirement in the years ahead
in Tasmania. It was also a library with a myriad locations in which I could
interact with others and engage in teaching and consolidation activities, service
and social activism, in ways I had never dreamt of in the first four decades I had
been a member of the Bahá'í Faith: 1959-1999.
In 1994 at the age of fifty, and as I was beginning to eye my retirement from FT
work in 1999, as a teacher and lecturer, Microsoft launched its public internet
web domain with a home page. Website traffic climbed steadily and
episodically in the years 1995 to 1999. Daily site traffic of 35,000 in mid-
1996, at the very start of the new Bahá'í culture of learning and growth, the new
Bahá'í paradigm, grew to 5.1 million visitors by 1999 when I had taken a sea-
change and retired to Tasmania at the age of 55. Throughout 1997 and 1998 the

site grew up and went from being the web equivalent of a start-up company to a
world-class organization. I retired from FT work, then, at just the right time in
terms of the internet capacity to provide me with: (a) access to information by
the truckload on virtually any topic; and (b) teaching opportunities, both direct
and indirect, far in excess of any I had had in my previous years as a Bahá'í.
From 2001 to 2005 I also retired from most PT and casual-volunteer work and
the google-micro-soft world expanded apace. This new technology had also
developed sufficiently to a stage that gave me the opportunity, the capacity to
post, write, indeed, “publish” is quite an appropriate term, on the internet at the
same time. Having released myself from FT, PT, casual and most volunteer
work, I was able to focus much more sharply on my writing, and Google and
Microsoft offered more and more technology for this writing activity. This
writing was aimed at teaching the Cause, at work in a Cause that I had devoted
my life to since my late teens and early twenties.
The Internet has now, in this 2nd
decade of this 3rd
millennium, become
emblematic in many respects of globalisation. Its planetary system of fibre optic
cables and instantaneous transfer of information are considered, by many
accounts, one of the essential keys to understanding the transformation of the
world into some degree of order and the ability to imagine the world as a single,
global space. The Internet has widely been viewed as an essential catalyst of
contemporary globalisation and it has been central to debates about what
globalisation means and where it will lead.
I now have several hundred thousand readers, perhaps millions, since it has
become impossible to actually count how many readers come to my work across
the 8000+ sites at which I have posted. The degree of each person’s
engagement with my writing is impossible to measure. This engagement of
others in parts of my internet tapestry, my jig-saw puzzle, my literary product,
my creation, my immense pile of words across the internet is at times serious, at
times frivolous, at times negligible and at times non-existent. There are
hundreds of people with whom I correspond on occasion as a result over, say, a
12 month period. This amazing technical facility, the world wide web, has made
this literary success possible. If my writing had been left in the hands of the
traditional hard and soft cover publishers, where it had been without success
when I was employed full time as a teacher, lecturer, adult educator and
casual/volunteer teacher from 1981 to 2001, these results would never have
been achieved.
I have been asked how I have come to have so many readers at my website and
on my internet tapestry of writing that I have created across the world-wide-
web. I have so many readers primarily because I have registered and posted at

so many sites and locations. My tapestry of prose and poetry, a tapestry I have
sewn in a loose-fitting warp and weft across the internet, is found at over 8000
websites where I have registered: forums, message boards, discussion sites,
blogs, locations for debate and the exchange of views. They are sites to place
essays and articles, books and ebooks, poems and posts, indeed, many genres
of writing. I have registered at this multitude of sites, placed the many forms of
my literary output there and engaged in discussions with literally thousands of
people, little by little and day by day over the last decade. I enjoy these results
without ever having to deal with publishers as I did for two decades without any
success.
Part III:
One of the main reasons, if not the main one for my focus on internet work, is
my inability to engage in extensive Baha’i community activity in the social
domain, since the turn of the 3rd
millennium. I had been not only employed and
working some 60 hours a week as a teacher but I had been extensively involved
in Baha’i activities in my Baha’i life from 1959 to 1999. Anyone interested in
my story, my account, of my experience of bipolar disorder(BPD) can read the
narrative at Baha’i Library Online(BLO). My BPD made it impossible for me to
interact with others for more than about two hours at a stretch.
Those who are interested can read the account of my Baha’i life including my
recent involvement in core activities should they desire. These accounts help to
place my internet work in the last decade in what I hope is a helpful context, the
context of my life-narrative so to speak. These documents, numbers 2, 23, 24,
30 and 36, can be found at the following link at BLO:
http://bahai-library.com/author.php
INTERNET SITES---STAGE 1
LIST #1: 2001-2004
After two decades(1981-2001) of keeping a rather small collection of publishers
and relevant files for the purpose: (a) of publishing a book of my own, (b) of
publishing Baha’i material/activities in magazines and in the periodical press or
(c) of simply buying hard/soft cover books written by someone else, I began in
the Australian winter, June to August of 2001, forty days from the start of the
Five Year Plan of 2001-2006, to keep what became in the next ten years an
extensive collection/series of arch-lever files and two-ring binders. I recorded

publishers and websites that were useful in my work to promote my prose, my
poetry and the Cause.
By July 2003, two years into this file and site collecting exercise, I had a list of
a large number of sites and publishers, several hundred locations, more than I
could log onto regularly. I also acquired and listed many other sites in
connection with various subjects, topics and disciplines much of which I have
listed in my 100+ page statement and much of which I haven’t. The total
number of sites came to more than 1000. In some ways this is not significant
given the fact that the number of sites on the internet now numbers several
hundred million.
In July 2003 I divided this large list into several subsidiary lists, created to give
some specificity, some individual subject location, to what had become a
burgeoning, somewhat unmanageable, list. These subsidiary lists, taken
together, were still unwieldy, but it served as a sort of library of locations when
and if I wanted to draw on the information or log into a site and do a posting.
These subsidiary lists are now located in various files: religion, the Baha’i
Writings, Canadian poetry, Australian poetry and Baha’i history, inter alia. This
list served as the core, the outline, of my site acquisitions or site activity two
years after I had made a start with that original list of internet sites in the winter
of 2001.
In May 2001 the 2nd
edition of my website went online and the Baha’i World
Center officially opened the Terraces and the Arc Project. I use this date as a
measuring time/rod/demarcation point for my work on the internet in these early
years of my retirement from FT, PT and casual work in the teaching profession,
1999-2011. This 2nd
edition of my website did coincide with the onset of my
record keeping. In fact both my website and my recording began within the ten
day period: 21/5/01-1/06/01---the official opening/completion of the Arc
Project.
By 2004 I had added many more sites and developed what I came to call my
Publishing Volume 12. This Volume 12 can now be found in 20 Parts in my
study here in Tasmania. I refer to this volume from time to time in this
statement. This second list, this Volume 12, is a list I refer to in my computer
directory as “List #2." I devoted most of my internet site attention to this
Volume 12 as the early months of 2004 advanced. By April 2004 I was
devoting virtually all my time to Volume 12. By October 15th
2004 Volume 12
had more than 500 additional sites, by June 30th
2005 it had more than 1000 and
by April 21st 2006, five years into the original exercise, I stopped counting.1

I write all of this and kept the names of all the sites I had registered at, as I say,
largely for my own information, just to keep a record of how this exercise
evolved. I realized, too, that: (a) what I was doing had a significance to me that
I had not anticipated and (b) a written statement might be useful one day if, in
fact, what I was doing did take on a significance that was already becoming
apparent. The story is here, I said to myself, if I ever need it for some purpose. I
have sent, unrequested, copies or partial copies to several individuals and Bahá'í
institutions just to give them an idea of the work I am doing. Thusfar, I have
received two encouraging responses: one from the Universal House of Justice in
relation to my autobiographical work, and one from the NSA of the Baha’is of
Australia Inc. on 9 October 2007 in relation to my internet work.
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1
I stopped counting in this List #1 below(not included in this abbreviated 20
page document) of 1000 sites. I began counting again in List #2. List #1 is not
complete and as time goes on it becomes more incomplete as more sites get
added. I no longer update this List #1. I have lost interest in keeping my
computer file completely up-to-date because of the very burgeoning nature of
the exercise. It has proved difficult to keep an exact figure of how many
postings I do at each site and when and what the content was at each site. This
is due to the number of sites on all the lists, that is, List #1 to List #5. With
well over 8000 sites on all the lists it is unlikely that most readers will have any
interest in the names of the sites or, for that matter, this general outline. But I
write this overview for the reasons I have already indicated, and I can provide
the list of all the sites, as I say above, if anyone writes to me. I will then send
them over 100 pages of the names of the sites.
Ron Price
1 June 2011
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INTERNET SITES--STAGE 2:
LIST #1 2001-2004:
1. Introduction:
By 1 July 2008 when the new teaching Plan(2006-2011) was two years and two
months old(April 2006-June 2008), the process of searching out sites, forums in
the social sciences and humanities, in popular culture and to a lesser extent in
the biological and physical sciences, forums for posting and publishing various
items of my writing, various material in relation to the Baha’i Faith, responding
to issues raised on the sites by others and engaging with specific individuals at

these sites, had developed far more than I had anticipated on 21 May 2001 at the
start of the whole process.
At the start of this site and internet searching process seven years before(2001-
2008), I simply had no idea of what it would lead to in the teaching and
consolidation, service and social activism fields. My own website went into its
second edition on May 21st 2001, the date of the official opening of the
Terraces, as I said above. My website’s first edition went from 1997 to 2001
and had little to no value in the teaching work, at least relative to the years in
the next decade.
In the embryonic years of my internet life, the decade 1991 to 2001, I had no
idea of the potential for placing my writings on this world wide web or
interacting with others in relation to the Cause, my writing or, indeed, any other
subject. In those years the internet was essentially a source of information and a
basis for emails.
As the seventh year of searching out sites for posting or publishing items was
coming to its end, I found myself keeping only a very general record of my
postings at sites where I was a registered member. To even log in to all the sites,
as I have pointed out above, at a greater rate than once/month had become
impossible even if I devoted, say, 10 to 12 hours to this internet process each
day. I do not possess the energy or enthusiasm for this extended type of
application, and core activities as well as my personal life off the internet had to
be attended to.
This activity, of acquiring and servicing sites principally, especially, for Baha’i
purposes, came to occupy my time intensively in 2003 & 2004. In early 2004,
after completing my third book, the fourth edition of my autobiography
Pioneering Over Four Epochs, I looked for an extensive writing outlet and
the internet satisfied this search. From 2005 to 2008 my activity at websites
actually decreased, though, because: (1) of what I can only call internet fatigue
and (2) I had turned to non-internet writing: poetry and autobiography.
I kept going back to this posting process when I was unable to work on my book
or books, when I was not moved to write poetry, when I got tired of reading and
when I wanted “little writing and posting jobs” that I knew would contribute in
their own way to the teaching work. During these internet-posting-days-or-
hours I usually spent from 2 to 10 hours; the variation was and is large.
Although it is possible to quantify the time I spend posting poems, essays and
comments of various kinds on what are called threads at internet sites, I never
kept an actual daily time record except in the most general of ways.

It is more simple to say I came to have three main activities: writing, posting
and reading and I altered them to preserve my sanity and because I simply get
tired of any one activity if pursued beyond a certain length of time. The average
is, as I say, about 8 hours a day devoted to these three activities in total.
2. Developmental Background:
The first edition of this particular list of sites, sites especially devoted to
publishing and posting(1) in 2001/2 was a very short list consisting of only a
small handful of locations. A second edition in 2003 became a third edition in
April 2004. That original list of a few sites in 2001 had burgeoned to over 800
sites by January 1st 2005 and to over 1000 by May 21st 2005. The contents of
what became eleven files(8 arch-lever files and 5 two-ring binders) and well
over 1000 sites was now divided into 20 parts, a division that evolved naturally
and was not based on any inherent system. As the sites were contacted and their
forum outlines copied, filed and used for recording my postings, the collection
of resource/site information, et cetera was brought together into these several
volumes.
This list, like the first list described in the first document(List #1) became, as I
say above, too lengthy a list to really service properly. It required the work of
other Baha’is and so I placed a notice/article in the Australian Baha’i Bulletin
which appeared on October 12th 2004 across Australia. I also presented a
workshop at the Tasmanian Summer School on “The Art of Using the Internet.”
There was no response to my notice in The Bulletin and no evidence of any
increased presence of Baha’is other than myself at the vast majority of the sites
at which I had registered, except of course at specifically Baha’i sites, ten
months after the advertisement. The participation of Baha’is at websites is
difficult to assess when one is talking about 8000+ sites. The sheer magnitude
of the task/process, the number of sites and the vast quantity of participants over
all these sites is simply beyond any one person to assess participation levels by
the thousands of Baha’is on the internet.
I have given this entire package of 20 arch-lever files and 7 two-ring-binders the
label Volume 12: Publishing because the total exercise is one of publication in
some form or another on the Internet. I made several copies of an earlier list of
sites for those attending the workshop on “the use of the internet” at the
Tasmania Baha’i summer school in February 2005. Volumes 1 and 2: The
Baha’i Faith and the Arts(1.1.,1.2, 2.1 and 2.2) and Volumes 3 to 17:
Publishing(excluding Vol.12) contain a large body of sites on: Australian Poetry,
Canadian Poetry, Cinema/Media Studies and several collections involving The
Baha’i Faith and the Arts. These subjects contain a burgeoning list of sites, sites
which I acquired and serviced during the first three developmental years 2001 to

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but which, at least for the most part and at least since Ridvan 2004, I have
come to service or contact relatively infrequently. This latter category of sites,
while being devoted to posting and publishing as well, as the titles on that list
indicate, is also devoted to obtaining information.
At this stage of development, these sites serve as an archival base that I service
periodically as the need, interest and desire arises. Sections like (a) Canadian
Poetry, (b) American poetry, (c) diary/journal sites, (d) literature and (e)
cinema/media sites I try to service more frequently but this, too, has become
impossible on even a regular basis.
3. Future Development
In the months and years that lie ahead I’m sure this base of 8000 sites will be
extended into further parts and volumes. I hope, too, that the 1000 or more
archival/information sites will find my presence there more extensively than
thusfar. But, as anyone can appreciate, well over 8000 sites to post Baha’i
material in some kind of teaching and consolidation, service and social activism
capacity is too much of a bite to chew, as one might put it colloquially. This
activity is clearly a publishing and teaching device that has assumed impossible
dimensions. There is always work, publishing work and teaching the Cause in
the process. Perhaps, too, I will develop a system for servicing the sites with
more frequency and thoroughness, especially if others become involved in this
activity which I am confident they will in the years ahead even if this
involvement is not part of any coordinated exercise and even if, at present, I
have not engaged anyone else in a similar level of activity. I simply provide
others with information when they ask.
There is necessarily a life other than posting stuff on the internet. It could be
argued that I spread myself too thin and should aim for depth and not breadth
and that may be true. Posting at sites has a certain serendipitous quality just like
teaching the Cause in everyday life. On the internet, so in life, I have scattered
seeds far and wide, but not necessarily deep/in one place. Depth, of course, is
always difficult to measure and all I want to do in this brief outline is give
readers a general picture of my website and internet activity.
Since the completion of the 4th edition of my autobiography(note: not my
website) by Ridvan 2004, I have had no specific idea/plan for another book,
although intimations of a book to write occur from time to time, but I do not
seem to have the inspiration, the specific direction, to take on a book. I spend
some time occasionally working on the 7th edition of my autobiography and
developing ideas for other books. But, in the main, I now work in this milieu
of over 8000 sites3
when the spirit moves me. These sites provide enough to
keep a marathon runner-writer busy into perpetuity, well into several more

Olympic games or, in terms of the Baha’i calendar, at least to the end of the first
century of the Formative Age in 2021 or even the end of my own first century of
living in 2044 and two Baha’i centuries.4
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1
The term ‘publishing’ refers to systematic posting of essays and, indeed, a
variety of other material on the internet, material like: emails/letters,
parts/chapters of books, poems, prose-poems, reviews of films books, inter alia.
In addition this List #2 is comprehensive but not absolutely accurate due to the
sheer number of sites involved.
2
In the six year period before the first edition of my own website, from 1991 to
1997, and the four years after the creation of the 1st
edition of my website, from
1997 to 2001, I began to search out and contact websites. This was the first
decade of my use of the email facility as well. These were embryonic years and
I have no record of any results, any sites listed from this decade of beginnings.
Of course I was still employed professionally as a teacher in Tafe until 1999 and
as a volunteer teacher with a School for Seniors until 2004 or actively engaged
in community work of different kinds until May 2005. I dropped these
involvements at various times in the years 1999 to 2005, although some work in
core activities continued and this can be found in my autobiography at Baha’i
Library Online(BLO).
From 1999 to 2001, during the first two years of my retirement, I began to set
up my systems: files, categories, internet order and form, etc. here in George
Town for future writing and work on the internet. In these first two years I
really only began to see, insensibly for the most part, the potential for
publication and teaching in this medium. But as the 2nd edition of my website
went on-line in May 2001, at the start of the Five Year Plan(2001-2006) and at
the same time as the opening of the Terraces, I began to see the internet
potential for ‘seed planting.’ By April 2006, the end of that FYP, I was
spending virtually all my time reading and posting on the internet; and in
writing articles, essays and books generally.
3
A team of several people could be kept happily employed servicing these sites
with a minimum of regularity and a periodicity of once a week, fortnight, month
or whatever frequency, depth and breadth; indeed many more could also be
employed should this exercise be seriously taken up by a group of Baha’is,
especially/only people with skills at writing and depending on the time they
could devote to this exercise. No coordination would be required for such an
exercise, although if it was to be done in a sophisticated way that is another
question. It would be too onerous and complex a task for me to engage in from

this remote backwater. Perhaps a small team of two or three would be best. In
addition, there are many more sites which will be added to this list as time goes
on. I think this idea, this proposal, is unlikely to be taken up in the short term,
in the immediate years ahead.
4
I hope this brief essay provides a useful base of information, a useful outline,
to anyone expressing interest in this activity of internet posting. I have written
this introduction, as I say above, partly for my own use simply to outline just
how this activity has developed in recent years and partly for interested others
who think they might like to give their writing skills and their interest in
teaching the Cause on the internet a good workout. Readers should not concern
themselves unduly with the above process of development that I have outlined.
It is essentially a sketch for my personal purposes and interest. But, as I have
also said above, my interest in this process of record keeping is minimal and my
reason for outlining the process has had, thusfar, little interest and value to
anyone else.
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INTERNET SITES: STAGE 2
LISTS 2 &3
List #2:
INTERNET SITES IN 20 PARTS (20 arch-lever files & 7 two-ring
binders)
A SUMMARY STATEMENT
Most of the internet site information below was gathered after I stopped writing
the 4th edition of my autobiography, Pioneering Over Four Epochs at Ridvan
2004. In late May 2004 I initiated the 5th edition of that book and a copy was
placed in the Baha’i World Centre Library. Work on that 5th edition has
continued from time to time as inspiration and relevant content has come to
mind. Posting on internet sites came centre stage in 2004, but after several
months of posting the spirit became exhausted with the process and had to move
on to other activity. What is found here on this list below in Volume 12: Parts
1 to 20, was initiated in 2004 and continues to 1 June 2011 as I make this
summary statement.
On 23 May 2008 I had been engaged in this exercise for seven years since the
opening of The Terraces(23/5/01), the opening of the 2nd
edition of my website

and since recording my postings on the internet. The internet site titles/
headings from over 4000 sites now in 2008 I have listed in a document of some
100+ pages. They can be obtained from me under separate cover. As the
months and years go on, of course, more sites, will be added.
There are some 1000 sites(a guesstimation) put together from 2001 to 2011
which are for the most part only information sites. No posting is done at these
sites, no dialogue, no interaction—just information is obtained. This list is
comprised of both Baha’i sites and other interest group sites for information and
publication and I have not included it here.1
I have subtracted these 1000 sites
from the total of all my sites giving a working base of some 8000 sites at which
to post, interact and teach.
Each Baha’i who makes the effort to register and post at internet sites will
obviously do so on the basis of his or her own interests and capacities. My list
inevitably will not be another person’s list. But the following list of sites will
give anyone who is interested in posting Baha’i material and what for them is
‘Baha’i related material’ an idea of the sites on which I am ‘working.’ Feel free
to write to me for more advice on how you might take advantage of this
immense teaching opportunity. -Ron Price, 1 June 2011.
___________________________FOOTNOTES____________________
1
There are several lists of sites now which taken together come to over eight
thousand sites. Some are Baha’i information sites and some useful sites for
posting Baha’i related material. I have not included them all here; they are
available to anyone who is interested. I have included here(above and below) a
total of about 20 pages of A-4 size(font 14) material.
2 Given the range and extent of the internet sites I have posted at; and given the
limitations of time and energy, the presence of the Baha’i Faith at most of these
sites is still (a) embryonic, (b) slight and (c) requires much more
development/interaction/postings to be noticeable or significant in any
quantifiable sense. To put it another way, the Baha’i presence at these sites is
still coming out of obscurity. But, for the most part, the history of these sites is
coextensive with my own involvement. The years 2000/2001 and after were, in
many ways, beginning years for many, if not most, of the sites. I am pleased that
I was able to get involved in these foundation years.
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INTERNET SITES: STAGE 2:
(Stage 2 List 3)
3.17 THE BAHÁ'Í FAITH AND THE ARTS

VOL. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2.1(Volumes 1 and 2):
These five arch-lever files had their origins decades ago, but it was not until the
formation of a Working Group for the development of the Arts in the Australian
Baha'i Community in 2003 that these particular files came into existence. Now
in 2008 after five years, these resources have their present form as set out in
their respective Tables of Contents.
Volume 1.1 deals with film sites; volume 1.2 with general Baha’i sites. Volume
2 consists of section 2.1 contains material from Mark Foster’s Site. Volume
2.2.1(Volumes 1 and 2) has resources from the Jollyroger.com site. Volume 2 is
not concerned explicitly with the Arts in Australia. There is a broad relevance
of Jolly Roger and Mark Foster to the Arts as I see them and work with them on
the Internet. It was this that inclined me to include them here under the head:
The Baha’i Faith and The Arts.—1 June 2011.
INTERNET SITES: STAGE 2:
STAGE 2: List #4:
I have a series of other arch-lever and 2-ring binder files on many topics, some
of which I will list here: (a) psychology, (b) sociology, (c) media studies, (d)
film studies, (e) history, (f) literature, (g) poetry, (h) creative writing, (I)
anthropology, (j) Greek history, (k) Roman history, (l) interviews, (m)
philosophy, (n) astronomy, (o) geography, (p) health, (q) historians, (r) fiction,
(s) drama, (t) music, (u) art, (v) letters, (w) biology/botany & archaeology, (x)
publishing, (y) religion, (z) wide range of Baha’i topics: history, writings,
administration, et cetera. Some of these files contain specific sites which I have
not placed on the above lists. List #4, then, is a sinuous list that, as yet, has not
been set out into a coherent form. Perhaps at some future time I will do this—
when it seems pertinent to do so. When each of the words in the above section
from (a) to (z) is typed into the google search engine followed or preceded by
my name an additional list of sites/entries/posts are found.
STAGE 2: LIST #5:
WORDS TO TYPE INTO SEARCH ENGINES
TO ACCESS MY WORK
Preamble:

This list below has many 1000s of entries on the internet for my poetry, prose
and responses to people at internet sites. My guesstimation is that there are
some 45,000 posts from the above 8000(circa) sites), but it is very difficult to
make a total after ten years of posting(2001-2011) on the internet. I have only
outlined below some of the process by which these entries can be accessed.
These entries were first made in the Five Year Plan(2001-2006) and they
continued to be added from month to month in the FYP, 2006-2011, and in the
current FYP(2011-2016). I have tried to provide some summary of the present
online access to my work on the WWW by listing (a) key words and phrases to
type into search engines and (b) indicating the general rating or frequency of my
postings listed under those key words. Readers should simply follow the
instructions outlined below to access these entries.
A.1 WORDS TO TYPE INTO SEARCH ENGINES LIKE GOOGLE
TO GET ITEMS OF MY WRITING BY TOPIC:
1. Type my name Ron Price(with or without a space between my first and
family name) followed by any of the following subjects, topics or words—and
many others you might like to try somewhat at random. The results are literally
100s of 1000s of selections, sites and documents, items and readings, poems
and articles, essays and ebooks, internet posts and discussion points, inter alia.
The following list was composed in December 2009 and has not been updated
since. It needs to be updated at least annually to keep it reasonably accurate.
This entire business of record keeping had become an onerous one as the last
years of the first decade of this internet activity developed(i.e. 2001 to 2011).
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journal, diary, Universal House of Justice, Buddhism, The Báb,
Hinduism, Literature, Bahá’u’lláh, tradition, poetry, Shoghi Effendi, history,
Abdu’l-Baha, astronomy, ancient history, epochs, interviews, society,
sociology, education, democracy, psychology, politics, schools, cinema,
anthropology, teaching, geography, health, TV, Bahá’i, mental health, radio,
religion, bipolar, depression, BPD, philosophy, lithium, media studies, writing,
Christianity, pioneering, creative writing, Australia, popular culture, classical
poetry, Canada, Thucydides, essays, Herodotus, movies, Virgil, George Town,
letters, Autobiography, westerns, biography, Plutarch, social studies, Islam, war,
Jolly Roger, Toynbee, Launceston, Gibbon, Shakespeare, Dickinson,

Wordsworth, epic, narrative, Pioneering Over Four Epochs, Burlington,
Windsor.
There are also: (a) many writers, (b) thinkers, (c) people with other skills in
other disciplines, (d) other topic areas as well as (e) many other subjects one
could add here.
There are dozens of other topics I could add here. The list of internet sites in this
report could all be added here. The site preceded by my name and typed into
the search engine search box should enable the reader to locate my material.
This is not always the case since internet sites have a certain dynamism; that is,
they change their content, their layout frequently and it is often difficult to
locate my material unless googlers is highly specific in their request.
Generally, though, there is enough information provided here for anyone to
access many of my postings/writing to assess its relevance, its suitability, its
quality, its role as a teaching tool which is, of course, its main purpose. The
above lists provide a broad and sufficiently detailed outline for anyone to draw
on, for anyone to extend to topics of personal interest by inserting some other
topic/name and evaluate my activity on the internet, if desired and for anyone to
get some wide-angled view of just what I do on the Internet.
INTERNET POSTINGS NOT EXPRESSED ON THE ABOVE LISTS
A SUMMARY OF RON PRICE’S INTERNET PUBLISHING
I have outlined below several categories of my writing, my writing projects of
varying sizes, genres and subjects on the internet. You can gradually get into
whatever categories of my work you desire, if at any time you do in fact desire,
over the next few days, weeks, months, years or decades. Most of the
following items went onto the internet in the period 2001-2011. Most of it is
free of any cost, although some of the self-publishing material costs anywhere
from $3 to $20. There are three general categories of printed matter I have
placed on the world wide web. These categories are:
1. Books:
1.1. The Emergence of a Baha’i Consciousness in World Literature: The
Poetry of Roger White. This 400 page ebook is available at Juxta Publishing
Limited and can be downloaded free of charge.
1.2. A paperback edition of the above book is available at Lulu.com for $11.48
plus shipping costs from the USA. This self-publishing site also has a four
volume work, a study in autobiography, entitled Pioneering Over Four Epochs
which is 2500 pages long(four 600+ page volumes). The cost of these books is
set by the two internet sites: Lulu.com and ebook Mall.

2. Internet Site Postings:
Essays, poems, parts of my autobiography and a wide variety of
postings/writings in smaller, more manageable, chunks of a paragraph to a few
pages are all free and can be accessed by simply: (a) going to any one of
approximately 8000 sites or (b) typing some specific words into the Google
search engine as indicated in the following:
2.1 Approximately 8000 Sites:
I post at a wide range of poetry, literature, social science and humanities sites
across a diverse mix of subjects, topics and intellectual disciplines in both
popular and academic culture. The list of these sites is available to anyone
interested by writing to me at: ronprice9@gmail.com. But a simpler method for
readers to access many of my postings would be to:
2.2 Type Sets of Words At Google:
There are literally hundreds of sets of words now that will access my writing at
various sites. If you type, for example, Ron Price, followed by any one of the
following words or word sequences: (i) poetry, (ii) literature, (iii) religion, (iv)
Baha’i, (v) history, (vi) Shakespeare, (vii) ancient history, (viii) philosophy, (ix)
Islam, (x) Australia Bahai and (xi) pioneering over four epochs, et cetera, et
cetera, you will get anywhere from a few sites to over 150 sites arranged in
blocks of ten internet locations. This last site, “pioneering over four epochs”, is
a particularly fertile set of words to type into the google search engine.
The main problem with this latter way of accessing what I have written is that
my work is side by side with the items of other writers and posters who have the
same name as mine and/or the same topic. I have counted a dozen other Ron
Prices and I'm sure there are more. You may find their work more interesting
than mine! There are some entrepreneurs, like car salesmen, evangelists, media
celebrities, a fascinating array of chaps who have different things to sell and
advertise, different skills and interests, than my offerings and abilities.
3. Specific Sites With Much Material:
Some sites have hundreds of pages of my writing and these sites are a sort of
middle ground, a different ground, between the two major categories I have
outlined above. The Baha’i Academics Resource Library(BARL) for example,
has more of my material than at any other site. My writings are listed there
under: (a) books, (b) personal letters, (c) poetry, (d) biographies and (e) essays,
among other categories/listings. The Roger White book is at BARL under
“Secondary Resource Material>Books. I find this site useful personally, but

some of the poetry is not arranged in a visually pleasing form. Some readers
may find the layout annoying.
There are some sites at which my writing is found in a very pleasing form with
photos and pictures and general settings to catch the eye. Some site organizers
have their location beautifully arranged. I leave it to readers to read what
pleases them and leave out what doesn’t. When one posts as much as I do one
often writes too much, says the wrong things or upsets an applecart or two. It's
part of the process. In cyberspace, as in the real world, you can't win them all.
The pioneering over four epochs word sequence is, as I’ve said, a useful word
package to access some 150 sites with my writing and has no competition from
other ‘Ron Prices.’
Concluding Comments:
I had no idea when I retired from full-time employment in 1999 to write full-
time that the internet would be as useful a system, a resource, a base, for my
offerings as it has become.1
There are literally millions of words now on this
international web of words that I have written in the last TEN years(2001-2011).
From the early eighties to the early years of this new millennium(1981-2001) I
tried to get my writing published in a hard/soft cover and to get some coverage
for the Cause or my own writings, but with little success. My guess is that in
the years ahead the world will be awash with books and various genres of
printed matter from millions of people like me posting various quantities of
their writing. This is becoming obvious to anyone who examines the internet
seriously even now.
What I write may not be your cup-of-tea. In that case drink someone else’s tea
from someone else’s cup. There is something for everyone these days in both
hard and soft cover and on the Internet. If you don’t like my work or someone
else’s go to sources of printed matter you like. One hardly needs to say this, but
I do not expect what I write to be everyone’s cup-of-tea.
For those who already do or may come to enjoy my writings, I hope the above
is a useful outline/overview. For those who don't find what I write attractive to
their taste, as I say, the above will give you a simple handle to avoid as you
travel the net. I wish you all well in your own endeavors in the path of writing
or whatever path your travel down.
1 I retired from FT teaching in 1999, from casual and PT teaching in 2003 and
from most of my volunteer work(teaching and non-teaching activities) by May
2005. Except for some explicit/overt Bahá’í work for the George Town Baha’i
Group and as part of the Baha’i community of Tasmania, I will have had six
years(June 2005 to June 2011) devoted to writing as fully as possible and
posting on the internet when inclined and when time permits.

Ron Price
Latest Update:
1 June 2011
A summary of 8000 words and 19 pages
From a longer document of: 24,000 words and 128 pages,
if the names of all 8000+ sites are included.

A Master List of My Websites

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