Why would anyone invest in something intangible? Something they cannot touch, feel, breathe, caress? Well, I am among those insane who invest their hard cold bank digits into the abyss: webspace. Why? Well, it's part of my action, I guess.
So Funnelweb reminded me I haven't been back to the site in a while. And that's true.
I've been working and have felt swamped with projects and volunteering that I feel like I haven't had time to take action. But it didn't really occur to me that the way I take action has changed. Maybe evolved? I'm not sure. It's not the way it used to be, at least. But that little addictive bug is still there.
I'm not the kind of person who really divulges projects I'm working on, simply because they might not really work out. They might not go anywhere, and my hard work could go to waste (or, as I prefer to call it, I "gain experience" ;)) So usually I keep them to myself. But the project I'm currently working on, I need advice with, and it's outside my realms of knowledge, experience, possibly I'm out of my depth, as I'm slowly but surely realising how complicated the details are.
I'm creating a website. Inspired by all the awesome organisations I've been working with over the past few years, I really love the space where young'ns like us ;) can have a space to speak their mind. However, one frontier has not really been crossed - mobiles.
I'm creating a website, designed for mobile access, which is a space for young people to speak their mind - talk about their favourite bands, the policians they loathe, whatever they think deserves a rant. I'm marketing it as a magazine - so a series of short articles (under 400 words) by youth who write, rant and think about big ideas in a small space.
I'm also thinking of setting up a multi-message system, where new or awesome articles or stories are sms-ed to readers (who obviously sign up to sms alerts).
I've drafted a site, but I need a cool web address and title that is short and funky - coz mobile phones are really annoying to type on - and domain names are expensive. I was thinking of instead of using a '.com' address, but using a '.mobi' address (which is all the craze these days). I was thinking of calling it Moby Mag, but then, mobymag.mobi might sound a bit weird. Any ideas?
Secondly, I'm looking for submissions of articles. Short fiction, gig reviews, movie reviews, ideas for action, rants on politics, blogs, society, culture or just things you've been thinking about lately. I'm aiming at submissions being under 400 words - phones can't really load too much more in one go. Know any writers who'd be interested?
Any ideas? Cool names? Awesome addys? Places to advertise? Important laws I'm oblivious to?
I can't afford a business name, or to create an organisation, or anything as of yet. It's just me. It's just a website. But I think it's something I'd really like to try out.
Until I work out my awesome domain name, my draft site of Moby Mag is on my existing intangible property.
So... that's my project. That's my action. So we can think and write and rant and read whenever the mood may strike.
Ideas? Thoughts?
xo