I’ve chosen a name and a domain for the new publication, and now all I need to do is design the site, which won’t be easy, but I’ll enjoy it nonetheless. For now, I’m going to keep the name to myself, because I don’t want it to get any traffic while I’m still testing and implementing the CMS, but it combines elements of masculinity, purpose, action and even classical imagery in one simple word. Beta Revolution offered to help design a logo, and I’d like to take him up on that. We can come up with a pretty cool logo for this one.
So the idea is to have a system where writers can log in and post their material, just as one might with blogger or wordpress.com. It won’t be particularly difficult to do so, so I don’t foresee many problems with this. However, if contributors want, I can add some perks, such as personalized email handled by gmail and a google docs group for sharing files. Personally, I think this would be kind of cool and probably helpful for organization/coordination, but I’m not sure whether others feel this is necessary.
Basically, this publication will be an online structure that will allow us to have a larger impact than we can with a bunch of disparate blogs. Naturally, everyone should keep their own personal blogs for a number of reasons, not the least of which is the links they will provide to the publication, but having the ability to concentrate content on one site will greatly enhance traffic and exposure for our writing and ideas. It will also be a place to share ideas amongst each other.
13 responses so far ↓
1 novaseeker // Sep 3, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Good news!
2 Bob // Sep 3, 2009 at 4:38 pm
Sounds great,can’t wait to check it out.
3 BeltainAmerica // Sep 3, 2009 at 6:23 pm
Woot
I will transfer some money to my paypal hopefully tomorrow to donate with. Takes a few days for paypal to credit me with it but I will have it on the way!!!
Thanks for taking this on Welmer!!!
4 Beta Prime // Sep 3, 2009 at 7:25 pm
Send me an email to get me started on the logo. It’s on my blogger profile page. What dimensions are you looking for?
5 Beta Prime // Sep 3, 2009 at 7:26 pm
here it is…
thegoodlief [at] gmail [dot] com
6 Elusive Wapiti // Sep 3, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Count me in, that is, if you’ll have me. Donation forthcoming as well.
7 Welmer // Sep 3, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Of course you’re in, EW. Guys like you and Nova are essential to this kind of thing.
8 Ferdinand Bardamu // Sep 3, 2009 at 9:52 pm
I’ll be happy to contribute as well. Kudos, Welmer.
9 MASCULINIST // Sep 3, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Since you won’t tell us what the name is, can you at least tell us if it’s listed in the comments of the post where you solicited names for the website? —> http://www.welmer.org/2009/08/31/update-on-the-berblog/#comments
10 WP // Sep 3, 2009 at 11:46 pm
Here’s a couple of articles to run there once you get the site up:
- http://hbdbooks.com/2009/09/the-male-feminist/
- http://hbdbooks.com/2009/09/why-do-pretty-women-make-men-nervous/ – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/6132718/Men-lose-their-minds-speaking-to-pretty-women.html
11 Mike // Sep 4, 2009 at 11:17 am
This is a good idea. I don’t have a blog, but maybe some other qualifications of mine would mean that I might have something to offer to the blog. I’d enjoy contributing, if you’re looking for more voices.
12 Default User // Sep 9, 2009 at 1:23 pm
I created what might be called the Men’s Rights Matrix. It aims to provide a rough way of placing yourself on others in the MR space. It is based on the Nolan or Pournelle political charts
I am not sure if it has any use for helping to define the various strains of MR activism.
http://defaultuserblog.wordpress.com/2009/09/08/the-mr-matrix/
FWIW
13 Todd White // Sep 10, 2009 at 8:41 am
I’d be happy to contribute, as well.
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