I wouldn't necessarily attribute the 'medium' to the demise of this
list. Remember, it once had a heyday where youd *have* to set up mail
rules for the list emails because you'd come home to a full inbox
almost every day.
To offer an alternative medium to a group of people who already don't
use the current medium to any extent, seems a bit redundant.
Maybe I'm just being a naysayer, but i would think if peeps on this
list were interested in discussing stuff like this, it would be being
discussed already... I know with me personally, i already have a
couple forums i frequent on a daily basis, even in the best case
scenario where an idm forum is highly active and rich in content, my
productivity cant really take another hit to become another member to
something like that, which (i'm pretty sure) probably already exists
out there on the internet somewhere...
just my 2 cents, i mean no ill feelings, just being honest.
- mkid
On 18-Jan-09, at 6:16 PM, Ben Gates wrote:
This would be in regards to the recent posts about the current list
and it's
content, it's frequency, it's genre bending, its lack of excitement
for me (
Sorry, but this method of communication seems a little dated to me)...
etc
I myself relatively new to the list find it far from exciting to
really pay
attention to on a regular basis. I'm not sure if I'm over stepping on
this
list or not but I'm interested in setting up a new place for us to go
and
share not only our thoughts, but our pictures, videos, mp3's, equipment
reviews, a software update list, etc... I want it to be similar to
something like a
http://hypebeast.com/, or Kanye's
Blog<
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/>or
nahright.com <
http://nahright.com/news/>. I'm not saying that you
need to
like the content of those 3 blogs obviously, I'm just using them as a
good
reference for a "cool" modern day spot to go and see what's up.
I took it upon myself to purchase a domain name called thisisidm.com
(This
is IDM). Here is the catch, I'm not an experienced website builder or
HTML
guy. Sure, I can set up some basic stuff using templates, software
and what
not, but this blog/site could be way cooler if someone with some website
development skills would be willing to help get it going. I'm
thinking a
wordpress.org set-up with me as the moderator with back end access for
now.
The idea is to have people submit material and I will post it to the
site
and hopefully soon enough the material is so vast that it would one day
require some sponsors and a full time moderator.
I don't really want this to expand too far outside of electronic music
creation and the surrounding culture at this point, but I'm not a closed
minded person either, so once again I am open to input. I would like
to see
some organized sections for the previously mentioned topics as well as a
fully functioning chatting forum as well, and then one of the biggest
things
I would like to see is an up to date international live performance, and
album release date calender for anyone wanting to participate. I'm
hoping
to get some feedback from anyone or everyone both positive and
negative on
this idea. I want to make it absolutely clear that I am not saying
that I
think this list should stop, but what I am saying is that it would be
cool
to have somewhere else to congregate besides this list and myspace.
With
that being said let me also say this is my first post here as well, so
I'm
not sure if it will be my last for stepping on someone's heels or if
it will
be welcomed with open arms. This message has not been sent or posted
anywhere else yet either, infact this whole idea of mine is only 1 week
old...
Thanks for listening.
Ben Gates
bengates@gmail.com
www.myspace.com/bengatesmusic
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