The Magazine Thread

[tyrannosaurus vex]

if you know anything about HIMEOBS, you know too much.

[LMNO]

People do not write articles about HIMEOBS.


In Soviet Russia, HIMEOBS writes articles about YUO!

[Ambassador KAOS]

Fuck it, too much hassle, I'll come up with something else.

[LHX]

EDIT

[Ambassador KAOS]

actually I lied.  Couldn't come up with a better idea so I'm sticking with the original.  I'll post more on it after some sleep.

[Ambassador KAOS]

I was planning on starting the interview process for this this weekend but that is likely going to be impossible with the current ammount of heat I'm generating.

I'll jump back on this asap.

[P3nT4gR4m]

 

Yuo must be doing this on purpose 

[Thurnez Isa]

I was planning on starting the interview process for this this weekend but that is likely going to be impossible with the current ammount of heat I'm generating.

I'll jump back on this asap.

yah we have a thing about pretentious sock fuckers

[Cain]

Just thinking....I've been over looking at how Dionysus Unemployed are working on getting their message around online and I think we can probably appropriate their model for our own.

http://www.dionysusunemployed.net/content/index.php if you want a look.

Creating a multi-user typepad style blog is not hard (Typepad looks far more polished and professional than most other free blogs out there), in fact I'm sure if we ask Syn we may even be able to host it at blackironprison.com (if we move the Wiki off into a subdirectory), but lets not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

In addition to a blog style site with multiple contributors with various ideas, once every 3 months or so a Magazine would not be hard to throw together.  PDFing documents is easy and we have a couple of talented artists, plus I have found an excellent and reliable free hosting system, should we not make them downloadable directly from POEE or wherever.

However, we're going to have to come up with some decent ideas.

1. A site name or blog title.  We could use BIP but as you know, I feel its too limiting and if we stuck only within that theme, then there would be little content.  Something that encompasses the whole ethos of what we are attempting here.

2. People who want to get involved.  Signing up at blogger is easy enough, but I suggest having an editor or two to maintain overall production control.

3. Decide on things as a group of people.  This may be tricky.

4. Promote the place via method such as Technorati, commenting elsewhere, so on and so forth.

5. Anything else?

[Triple Zero]

at the very least i'll be helping with point 4.

[Cain]

I was thinking, using the Discordian calendar (ZOMG23PINEEEEEELGLUNDETC...) would allow for us to do 5 issues a year, if we followed the RAW style model of Verwirrung, Zweitracht, Unordnung, Beamtenherrschaft and Grummet.  Of course, relating each to the topic would also be nice, though not necessarily feasible....

Anyway, its an idea and its out there.

[Cain]

Oh, and once we settle on a name, I can try and grab an email version of it via gmail.  I think a group account will be fine, so long as nothing but spam is deleted.  That gives us the chance to leave notes for each other etc as well as deal with any mail or offers of help (or hate) as a group too.

[Triple Zero]

hm i like that idea!

btw, did you know "Grummet" (if you spell it that way, it's a real obscure german word) actually has the secondary meaning of "aftermath", meaning "second reaping" (of the crop)?

Oh, and once we settle on a name, I can try and grab an email version of it via gmail.  I think a group account will be fine, so long as nothing but spam is deleted.  That gives us the chance to leave notes for each other etc as well as deal with any mail or offers of help (or hate) as a group too.

it might be worth checking out Google Docs for this. it's a beta online word processor kind of thing that specifically allows for collaborative work. you can share it everybody with their own google account. i haven't tested it myself yet (cause it doesn't support Opera yet) but i've heard good things about it.

[Cain]

According to RAW, the primary meaning is that of Aftermath.  Unless I'm understanding you wrong here.  What did you think it meant?

I had a quick look at Google docs.  Seems interesting, but since we want an email for the site anyway, it might be overly complex.  I'll see what everyone else says though.

[Triple Zero]

"aftermath" has a second obsolete meaning in english:

aftermath (plural aftermaths)
(obsolete) A second mowing; the grass which grows after the first crop of hay in the same season.

the German word "Grummet" has (afaik) only this meaning, and not the usual meaning of "that which happens after".