On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 05:52:32PM -0500, Karen J. Cravens wrote: > What I've been thinking about is a group blog, or maybe a blogzine (I > haven't thought enough about exactly how it'd work). I haven't quite > decided if we'd have just a regular magazine (picking up and extending > the late lamented Fudge Factor (http://www.fudgefactor.org)), or a > rotating stable of "columnist" type entries, or just a more bloggish > collection of pointers to external content. > > Thoughts? Comments? Flames? Here's a thought: group blog. Pick six or seven people (the core of the Phoenyx Regulars, people you think are worth it). The general topic will be "gaming" and "Fudge", much as cosmicvariance.com has the general topic of "theoretical physics," but the people who post will be allowed to post on whatever they want. The people who post *should* post gaming and Fudge relevant things sometimes, just to make it all worth it. But as a blog, even musings become appropriate. Don't require there to be editors, or schedules, or even standards (beyond choosing people whose posts will be worth reading). And set it loose. That's how most group blogs work. The neat thing is, if you have several people with occasionally something to say, there's little set-up and overhead in running the thing. Use Wordpress, or some such, and the software's pretty straightforward. Assign a few moderators to keep track of comment spam (but use whatever the plugin is that outsources the spam blocking, 'cause comment spam *will* be a huge problem-- I know from my own blog, http://brahms.phy.vanderbilt.edu/~rknop/blog/ ). And set the posters loose. See what happens. -Rob -- --Prof. Robert Knop Department of Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University robert.a.knop@vanderbilt.edu
