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| From | "Robert Pally" <robert.pally@bluewin.ch> |
| Subject | A new idea for Audities |
| Date | Thu, 3 Jul 2008 21:10:58 +0200 |
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Sounds good to me too, altough i would write my reviews in german!!!
Best
Robert, the Swiss
2008/6/30 Sam Smith <sam@estreet.com>:
> I've been sitting on this idea for awhile, and it seems like now is a good
> time to broach it. So here goes.
>
> With all the music knowledge we have here, and considering all the people
> who write about music, what's say we start a team blog?
>
> * It would be a great way for those who don't have their own outlet
> to get off the ground.
> * Those who are writing could use it to x-post and drive more
> traffic for their existing efforts.
> * The promotional value would be through the roof. We can work
> together to use social networking tools like Digg to draw more
> attention.
> * We'd host it at Wordpress so it wouldn't cost anything.
> * It's easy to set up, use and administer.
>
> I've done something similar with my politics and culture blog and this is
an
> area where 10 people together can accomplish a LOT more than 10 people
> working independently.
>
> Given the core Audities power pop thing the site would probably lean in
that
> direction, but we could write about other genres as well - seems like a
lot
> of us have pretty broad tastes anyway. There wouldn't be any need to
police
> the boundaries for the most part - we'd just bill it as a community of
> people who love music and go from there.
>
> This wouldn't replace what we already have going with the e-mail list -
> instead, the two would complement each other nicely.
>
> What do you think?
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