January 2nd, 2009 
Seth I was talking with Chris recently, who told me about his idea to revamp his site completely away from a blog-type forum, and go in a totally new direction. I’ll let him tell you that, and not steal his thunder. But it got me to thinking: what could I do new with my site?
The blog thing is fine, and I definitely wouldn’t get rid of it, but maybe it’s time for a new format, where the blog is one PART of a bigger, more all-inclusive web presence. I’m not sure yet what I want to do, but if anyone has any constructive thoughts, I’d be happy to soak them all in.
A new design is DEFINITELY in order. I’ve been working on one for quite a while now, and that will happen for sure, but I’m thinking more as far as content. I’d like to do some more regular stuff, but have trouble sometimes with just a generic blog form of textual free-form thought. If I had a more specific goal, like a weekly game review or video of some kind, it would beat the whole “what to post” struggle, and I could just bang something out.
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Good idea!! We should all work together and figure this new format out. I would want it to be able to share info with your sites anyway. My guess is it will still be WordPress, with a lot of different plug-ins
That or Joomla. The more I want to do, the more I’m understanding that Joomla might be a better CMS. I’m not sure, but I’m reading about it now. Do you have any experience with it?
Maybe all of you guys should do a thing together, unless you can’t stand the idea of having to share like big boys. One site with interesting things from all of you…if someone slacks the others are there to keep things fresh.
Joomla can be a minor or major deal depending on what you do with it…it’s got tons of plugins but can sometimes be a chore to customize. Not always, but sometimes.
We did. It’s called http://www.actioncorp.net, but anymore it’s a ghost town. I think it served as a manually-powered RSS feed for geek things, and until ACTUAL RSS came in, it was pretty happening, but anymore, it’s not as popular.
Yeah, but there’s a big difference between a generic whatever/whoever bulletin board and a content-driven website by 3 or 4 guys who have some focus and work to keep things interesting. I believe you news geeks might even call it “journalism” (*gasp*).
perhaps that’s the direction “news” will go, as local news becomes obsolete. You could be cutting edge. Can I buy stock in your fledgling dot-com? It could be HUGE! Maybe you could advertise in the superbowl, and get a mascot… something simple and non threatening, like a sock puppet… or maybe a singing rodent with really large cute eyes!
Either way, I’m excited to see how your site will morph…