Trying to firm up my plans
I've decided to try a group blog rather than a community site, at least to start with. And since I'll be posting on two sites I had to think about what posts go where; I have to differentiate the sites in my mind.
I find most "Black" sites a bit narrow in focus. They tend to focus on those things the mainstream media do not. But I find every damn thing that impacts me to be a Black issue. That's one reason the subject matter covered here is so broad…to me, Black issues is a larger category than mainstream issues, so I don't want to rule any subject out for either site. And I don't want to just reproduce what others are doing.
I figure the benefit of a group blog (with potential to grow into a community site) is that folks can help cover what I can't, from lack of time or knowledge (just because it looks like I think I know it all doesn't make it so. I know exactly what those things are that I don't know). So Prometheus 6 should be for those subjects no one can write about but me. Basically that means I'm looking at doing objective issues on the group blog and subjective issues on Prometheus 6. That's not to restrict anyone I sucker into joining me, that's just my breakdown.
People should realize it will be Bizarro World for a lot of non-Black folks. That don't mean you can't hang. It may mean you'll have to justify the occasional assumption—we'll be juggling the default values a bit.
Comments will be registered users only in the group blog, I think. I've seen too many comments about deleting foul comments floating around recently.
Tip jar, Google ads, Blog Ads, something like that.
I spent several hours worth of disconnected minutes thinking about being fair and balanced, make sure we got libertarian and conservative representation. Fact is, proportional representation would require some 40 bloggers to get one of each.Ultimately I decided it's not my responsibility to give equal time. Anyway, that's where stories come in. Anyone can submit one of those if they register, and they go into a submission queue. Folks can read and comment on them and if enough folks give it a plus vote it will appear on the front page of the site.
