The Magazine Thread

[Payne]

As above.

[Cain]

Sorry, I'm slightly snappy today.  Too little sleep.  I just think if we can get the ball rolling and build up momentum, we could go places fairly quickly.

[P3nT4gR4m]

So below 

[LMNO]

Ok, so I'm up, and on.



So, what the hell are we doing with this again?

[That One Guy]

You know ... stuff. Things. Maybe more.

Signed up as well with PM en route to Cain.

[Cain]

Ok, so I'm up, and on.



So, what the hell are we doing with this again?

Not having a print magazine, but instead a sort of virtual equivalent.  All the contributed material to the site that looks good can towards the pdf magazine download I mentioned

[The Littlest Ubermensch]

I would just like to point out that nobody takes anybody seriously that has a domain name that's not a .com (without another ".something" in front of it) or at least a .net or .org. The most we could hope for unless we have a "real" domain name is a moderately successful blog, because very few people remember the ".wordpress" part, and if they do, they're likely to think it's a sign that we're financially weak or completely disorganized.

[Cain]

I was going to speak to Syn about using the blackironprison domain name for the blog and having the Wiki in a subdirectory.

[Cramulus]

Cain, you get mittens that would fit a hill giant for your initiative. I'll get right to work.

    Grr! My hands are cold!
               /


I think the thing I posted in Bing and Bag would make a good inside-cover or inside-back-cover poem.

Commense Issue 1!

[Triple Zero]

Cain, you get mittens that would fit a hill giant for your initiative. I'll get right to work.

    Grr! My hands are cold!
               /

looking for these?

ok, enough, please continue.

[Cain]

Alright then, what are we gonna put on the site?

I know this was the topic at the start of the thread, but it was lost in the technical details of the last couple of days.

I'm thinking along these lines:

not explicitly Discordian (Discordian themes but not the lingo)
dealing with a number of topics, like the wider use of this BIP forum (so new ways of thinking about old problems, fringe news, differing analysis of current events, reviews of media, other stuff?)

In fact, I'm about to have lunch - give me half an hour to write up some sort of "mission statement/who are we" sort of deal to try and elucidate on this, and then we can argue over it.

[LMNO]

Sound good.

Perhaps I can distill some of these debates even further, into one-voice essays.

[Cain]

Cool.

Just so you can see, this is another site that manages to be Discordian without being explicit: http://www.thebeak.org/  However, its a bit less focussed and more relaxed than what we are aiming for, I would think.

[LMNO]

::stretches editorial muscles::


I know I'm gonna piss people off with this next round of distillations.  Oh well.  If they wanna do it themselves, all the text is right here.

[AFK]

Eh, don't worry about it.  Besides, nobody wants to read our ramblings unedited.  While it may be interesting to us, it would be hard to get someone on the outside to sit down and slug through it all. 

And as far as the domain is concerned, I think if we can get the blackironprison domain that would be great.  I wonder, is it feasible to get our wiki onto the main wikipedia?  I've never tried adding anyting on there.  Of course, I suppose the name might give us some trouble. 

But, as I commented on the blog I think the key is keeping the wiki as a reference and the wordpress thing as the production venue.  The wiki, it seems like, doesn't really need to grow, if anything with the wiki it will be refining and linking to stuff on the blog.  At least, that's how I'm seeing it.