Friday, August 21, 2009

collaborative blogging

i want to explore the concept of collaborative blogging. why?
1. technology allows it
2. no one else is doing it as far as i know - creating posts through informal collaborative process; companies 'collaborate' but i am seeking different objectives here
3. it is an extension of blogging where people react and comment etc; but i want the original posts to be collaboratively formed
4. if the idea works, the posts will be superior and we can still argue over them ex post; but we need to maintain cohesion, which seems difficult :|
5. it is a virtual step toward my artist colony concept
6. i steal all my ideas anyway, particularly the good ones
7. i need blog posts; collaboration is what good managers do to distribute work away from themselves
8. [in a collaborative paradigm, you would be able to contribute additional reasons...or remove nonsensical ones].

here is how it works - this will evolve of course. all collaboration will use google docs for a platform - get with the times people! also download google chrome, toolbar, search more, buy GOOG, and send checks to me payable to cash...and click on ads...and buy stuff [good for economy, etc].

i will invest the checks or 'investments' in our collaboration project or else hide the assets in panama since switzerland seems to be out now. or we can incorporate as a small business and really cheat the shit out of us tax system [meaning citizens - that is us!]. but we will be the backbone of economy and maybe even appear on cable tv shows and/or run for office in alaska, illinois, etc. regardless, we will get plenty of useless and undeserved praise from el presidente and the other clowns at the circus tonight.

9. there are three categories of collaboration
a) direct collaboration on a post in progress
b) suggest/begin a new post
c) meta collaboration - ideas on improving structure/process of collaborative blog project

10. founding principles of this blog must be respected [at first, we can piss on them later]
a) humor
b) misanthropy
c) in depth analysis of critical issues
d) improve society through ideas and awareness [really]
e) raw humanity; keep the bullshit to a minimum and no conscious fronting
f) 500 words is ideal length for post; themes can persist of course across posts; if there is more to say then go for it
g) two legs good

11. collaboration will be open at first, but eventually restrictions will be put in place to weed out low performers.

12. i have final edit writes; it is my blog although the concept of individual is bullshit of course - hence this experiment. if you do a great job you might get ep credits :) if you want to post a different vision elsewhere, by all means...

13. no 'monetization' will occur on this blog. money is the root of all evil, darkness. ideas and collaboration collectively are the light and the resurrection of our culture, if you believe it.

14. start here

1 comments:

  1. Emotion #13 or Word to Your Moms, I came to Drop Psalms
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    Paul, in his first letter to Timothy, instructs him that:

    "For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows."

    Of course, the sin is not money, but the love thereof. It is a re-hashed warning from the Gita about attachent to the objects of sense.

    It is also worth noting here that the Greek document indicates that "all evil" is better translated as "all types of evil," rather than, "every instance of evil extant." Indeed, nearly all English translations since the King James observe this refinement.

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