I notice there are a lot of insightful, readable blogs from the HN clan.<p>I'm thinking our blogs should join forces into one giant armada. We'll bum rush the other big blog networks.<p>What do you people say about it?
Why?<p>1. to put ads on the giant armada site and collectively make a little money?<p>2. to make sure your blog posts are read by people of like-minds?<p>It seems that Hacker News is already taking care of #2, so is the only reason #1?<p>I'd be glad to cross-post to the giant armada when they seem of interest to other hackers/entrepreneurs. But I'll still be posting everything on my own site.<p>This is what I do at MusicThinkTank - maybe a similar idea. Example: <a href="http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/after-15-years-of-practice.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/after-15-years-of-practic...</a><p>There my music-focused posts get another audience that isn't checking my own personal site.<p>But then, if there was a Hacker News type site for “music think tank” type people, there wouldn't be a need for musicthinktank.com.<p>So is it just for the money?
How about a "Hackers ring"? You'd have a "Hacker news" rotating gif picture on your page, with arrows that would point towards the next or previous homepage in the ring. You could also click on the gif to get the whole list. :)
Set up your own blog planet software and add RSS feeds for things you're interested in. You don't need to ask people if they like it. Just do it yourself. If people like it they will ready it. After a while you will know from your visitor count if people like your idea.
This morning I was thinking wouldn't it be great if we had a yay query / diggnation style audio or video podcast breaking down the top stories on hackernews weekly or daily. Has this ever been done successfully? Would y-combiner get mad? If your interested in making a pilot episode, see where it goes let me know. talktr@gmail.com twitter@thomasreggi or cmt with your info.
It would be great if such a network helped startup entrepreneurs earn money through writing articles. It could mean giving technical / business advice to other people, or just doing reporting on the industry and markets within it.
I'm in. I'm currently moving my technical articles to another blog so it can stay on topic. Will post link soon.<p>Enter the tech shovel: <a href="http://thetechshovel.tumblr.com" rel="nofollow">http://thetechshovel.tumblr.com</a>
Check out <a href="http://roomcu.slinkset.com/" rel="nofollow">http://roomcu.slinkset.com/</a> - all these users were part of a friendfeed room I used to run.<p>-- The best idea I can think of is this group blog I just setup: <a href="http://hackerbra.in" rel="nofollow">http://hackerbra.in</a> (hackerbrain.com) and somehow populate it with the best hacker blog posts. It might have to be like Hacker Monthly, with someone spending time grabbing the best posts from a given set of blogs, and ask permission each time to cross post.
oh and I write at <a href="http://www.music-piracy.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.music-piracy.com/</a> in case anyone cares about my incessant rambling and general twenty something tech angst.
Any submissions to this new blog empire can be sent to bookmarkbroker@gmail.com, or leave a comment and link below.<p>If we get a good response, we should get a team together to make this happen.
I'm getting a lot of submissions via the bookmarkbroker@gmail.com email. I will review everything and respond to all emails.<p>Please allow me some time to look at the possibilities. If you are willing to invest time, resources and especially technical programming skills to this venture, communicate this to me in the email above.<p>Oh yes, and Thank You to everyone who has replied to this thread.
sure great Idea, I'd be glad to have all hackers add their Blogs here: <a href="http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite/" rel="nofollow">http://www.gmbhnews.com/addsite/</a> under the category Hackers, it's my mobile blog network webapp.