Scriffon – Unique Text Publishing Website
http://scriffon.com/
Scriffon is a text-publishing website. It’s a tool to publish any kind of written work on the web; from essays to short novels, from recipes to how-tos, etc. It’s free and open to everyone. Its design is influenced by minimalism. On Scriffon, you can create drafts and spend the time you need to write them. When you feel like it’s ready, you can publish them and share them to the world. Afterwards, you can modify them. And when you think the changes are ready, you can publish them. You can do it again and again. You’re in control. Scriffon stores your drafts and your published works for you. You can access them from any web-connected device. You can destroy your computer without losing your drafts and published items. (But Scriffon won’t replace your computer.) Scriffon has a different approach than blogs concerning text publishing. While the owner of a blog chooses the visual theme, the way posts are displayed, the navigation elements etc., every writing published on Scriffon is presented the same way. The emphasis is on clarity and readability. Authors doesn’t have to worry about it. They can focus on their texts. Writings are the number one element. On an importance scale, authors come just after. The visual design reflects this. Elements that could interfere with the ease of reading and writing are kept to the strict minimum. With Scriffon, writing doesn’t rhyme with blogging anymore. Though the people who use a blog to publish their writings may feel alone, those who use Scriffon are part of something. On a blog, you’re the only one on board. The “common room” aspect of Scriffon allows you to benefit from the knowledge, thoughts and skills of the others. The first feature that takes advantage of this is the collaborative translations. You write in english, right? Or at least you write in one language. But you do know that there are more readers on the web who can not read your language than readers who can. Scriffon provides a solution to this problem. When you publish a writing, you actually publish the original version of the writing. You’re the only one who can edit and update it. But every user of Scriffon can contribute to the translations (including yourself, of course). It’s called collaborative translations because there is a common draft for each language. Anybody can improve them, a bit like on Wikipedia. But you are the only one that have the power to publish them. With Scriffon, the world-wide web becomes world-wide again. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.