Kairos, as Gorgias (and later White) have defined it, is in the largest possible sense a way for us to re-consider the way we are inventing ideas through discourse. Constant potentiality and continuous interpretation -- these have always been the nexus of creating reality through language.

The electronic resources of a site like the Rhetorical Invention Homepage may expedite the intersection of, and the consideration of differing, if not necessarily opposing viewpoints. As LeFevre has said, "a model that allows for debate, dissension, and consideration of alternative views does seem appropriate when one is concerned with invention" (p. 55). And Porter (1992) suggests that writing spaces like this one may "represent conventional, sociological boundaries, where several discourse communities may intersect. We may ... discover that several competing ideologies, methodologies, principles, and stances intersect" (pp. 95-96).

The WWW provides not only intersection, but intersection-as-collaboration (hypertext, as Eyman has shown, is inherently collaborative) in the sense that the immediacy of the medium and the interactivity of the author(s) and reader(s) speaks to LeFevre's claim that we would best view invention as an act initiated by writers and completed by readers, extending over time through a series of transactions and texts. The (hyper)texts on a website may be pixeled rather than penned, and the transactions may be more synchronous rather than the traditional "extending over time," but this website does provide, at least, a clearinghouse for (re)defining the discourse community of "Rhetorical Invention scholars."

The goal of this website-forum-resource -- from my perspective, the goal of any such site on the WWW or elsewhere -- might be labeled as this: the kairic approach to the social activity of inventing what we know and how we talk and write about it. That is: