How do you mean promote the content? That sounds like a good idea. Like each story as its posted, try to run an ad for our discussion of that particular story?
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Like each story as its posted, try to run an ad for our discussion of that particular story?
That may be a good idea, particularly for certain hot topic stories. For example, we could go back and pick out a dozen or so stories over the last couple of months that have had 30+ comments, and then buy adwords that would match up with that story. That way people would do the search, see the ad for the story and hopefully read the story to learn more about the topic, and then stick around to discuss other things. An example of this might be the Open Source story that's running now. We could buy an adword for, say "desktop open source software" and have the text of the ad be something like "find a discussion of the best desktop open source software at Treesandandthings.com" with a link to that discussion.
Port 1080 has it, I think!
That OSS story is incredibly helpful, and practical. I'm gonna put it in my .sig(s) wherever I go (all 2.5 sites) to ask/give advice about tech issues.
I also frequent a couple of movie discussion boards.
For that, I'll link to a good movie riff, here.
I use delicious & Stumbleupon, too, but not religiously.
The key here (everywhere, really), I think, is to personally endorse what we love. For instance, I prefer NYC tap water (It really is quite good!) to Coke or Pepsi (and they taste better than my hometown tapwater). You see what I mean? No one (but you) can fuck with your own personal integrity. That was the central thrust of last year's V for Vendetta and Inside Man.
A lot of people on this here interweb use the computer on a daily basis. Some even got one (or more -- Can you believe it?!) in their own homes.
It's only been 7 months. Let's not worry about how we're defined except by what we are (a Yogi Berra moment), have been and want.
I'm a cretinous liberal who loves movies, music and computer games. I want to make my own micro-movies. I came here during the Plastic Blackout, and I ping-pong between here & there. This place is sweet, humble & loveable. The writing is better here, too. But Plastic has the Zazz (TNT is to Plastic, as Lisa is to Bart). There's no shame in being derived from Plastic, and this place will define itself, in the months to come. WE just have to be what we love.
A little color wouldn't hurt, though.
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I want to make my own micro-movies.
We need to collaborate.. or not. I just want to see every possible storyline filmed so that Hollywood has to buy scripts off of amateurs if they want to avoid any copyright laws.
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If you read blogs (which I don't).. then when replying to something, include a link to something you said that's similar on TnT. Use it in your sig (I've now added a link to TnT in my Plastic sig). Promote it by creating more websites with links to it (blogs, whatever).. every link makes TnT more relevant. Find out who our competition is so far as providing a non-partisan yet highly political forum, join in a couple of discussions there and leave a link. And fine some classic conservatives.. every story needs a villain.
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