I may have written online about this somewhere else. Like so many ideas in my head, like the camera in the shape of a gun and the uber-realistic streetfighting video game that uses real people like the Pope and that vagrant on Lakeshore, I’d be just as happy to see some one else make this happen, just to see it live in the world.
- Come up with a snappier, more descriptive name
- Once a month, people meet at a bar with a good happy hour, quiet background music, and free (or sponsored) wifi, and at this bar they spend an evening hashing out the details for a new website (favoring blogs) that ought to exist but doesn’t. They register a url, set up a wordpress/google-page/what-have-you, produce the first 5 to 20 pages of content, email all their friends to announce the launch, and print out business cards to pass out to everyone at the bar.
- Websites like ApocalypseVectors.info, blogging about the directions the impeding societal collapse may come from, and BrickAppreciation.net, where people who really enjoy bricks can share stories and pix, and TheDreamRecoveryProject.org, where people can name their dreams they’ve allowed to whither, and find resources to bring them to life…
- Maybe the host for the session comes in with the title/concept generally worked out, and has already done some research.
- Maybe the site concept is pulled that evening from a hat containing suggestions from people at the bar, or maybe those same suggestions are gathered up and then assembled into a voting table…
- Perhaps the suggestions are juried somehow.
- The host for the session becomes the new primary contributor, and takes responsibility for: A) Adding content to the site at least once a week for at least 1 month, & B) After at least 4 but no more than 8 weeks, passing on the “primary contributor” mantle to a new person (some one who wasn’t at the original salon?) who will fulfill the same two duties.
- A tiered budget would be good, for promotional, registry expenses, etc.
- Reregistering the domains should depend on reader contributions, with some contest for most pageviews/month, and least.
- A general style sheet/sample blog for good use of pages, faq, widgets, etc, to minimize arguments about which font to use and still allow discussions about changes.
- A general etiquette guideline of what can be changed and what can’t by the primary contributor
- A benevolent dictator…
- A web 2.0 or ISP sponsor…
- An ethos in advance about use of ads/profits therefrom
- A template for the blog’s purpose, strategy, motif, etc.
- A short blurb explaining the project with a tear-away submission form to add a new website concept
- A legal disclaimer about the IP rights
- An ethos about the IP rights, and the proper copyleft agreement/waiver/etc
- A list of historical precedents
