cold shiver

Mac's having a cold shiver about the possible expansion of the blog empire. The future is coming, is the rest of the football world about to join us in the 21st century? [BlogFootball]
I had a slap head thing, the other night. Using Radio to read a discussion group is far, far less strain on a server than building pages. It is however, a strange way of working, all be it much more powerful. You can mail directly from outlines, send them else where, to another blog for instance, as well as seeing the outline of a dg like this -- click to enlarge.. Maybe we should start renting these blogs out to other sub spawners. Let's think bigger, and we get many more teams. Would people want an easy to use website and information centre for £40 a year? All you serious blogger here in Villa land how much do you think this service is worth? I know some have paid up to £50 to the fighting fund, and most donations were to the news site, or rather from the news community -- non bloggers.

I've always had in mind a community business model, or co-operative. People do what they do best and get something back for it. Maybe each team sells subsites. With the proceeds shared amongst the blogger who blogs the blogs, even if it's taken in turns, or shared -- and machines, software, updates, hosting, bandwidth, set up and maintenance costs?

To keep this service going, to better it, to bring in new features, to ensure there's adequate back ups, this all costs money, and time.

The serious bloggers here, you know the power of your site, well, maybe some of it. Imagine being able to grow into it more, to integrate it perhaps into your work, at least posting more pix of family life, or other habits. Over the years it'll build into quite a record.

Let me put it another way. What would you want for £40? Or is that too much? First 30 days free, SMS blogging, chat, several sites?

Maybe standard blogs should be free (one per individual) and other features charged for? Manila is available in 5 languages, so European clubs could also join the fray, this could get big, quite fast and it needs cash to keep going. Anybody know how to sell ads to chippies in Aston?

 Source: BlogFootball; 13/03/02; 1:43:51 am.
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