It's this notion I have that I really want to do something with my spare time; something productive and meaningful that could very well grow to be something really damn cool. My idea was originally to start a print-zine; hard copies Xeroxed and stapled by hand and distributed by hand. This is all in the spirit of what a zine really initially was: an independently produced and distributed work. However, that isn't as cheap, easy or eco-friendly as I was really going for so now I'm settled on working on a Webzine on Blogspot; basically all the frills of a zine but more user-friendly, easier to manage, can be updated more often, is more with the times of a technology-fueled world...and of course takes a hell of a lot less paper (let's say, none) and is free to do. With a good community behind it we could get a lot of weekly or bi-weekly or read-it-as-often-or-not-as-they'd-like readers. That'd be swell, huh?
So first off, I need to come up with a name. It's got to be memorable. Short and memorable, and random. I can't get tired of it because I've got to make it into a permanent URL and everything so... as soon as the name business is out of the way I'm free to work on as many graphics as I would like for the site's aesthetics (and create the site to begin with). I've collected a lot of content folks have sent it already, but I want more, and after everything's set up I can start working on an actual "issue" so to speak. I need to talk to some chaps about possible columns or rants. It's all about content; the site could look as fancy as a purple goat and it still wouldn't mean shit if the content's complete shit.
So that's the plan:
- come up with a name/create site
- design design design
- work on issue
- let the world know!
My hopes are that this could actually go somewhere. So I'm going to go shower and then work more on step one so that I can get this shit going.
Night folks
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