Two Slashes

I was in a remarkably entertaining conversation with Nick last night when an idea I’ve been sitting on managed to rear its head once more.  As you might have noticed, I occasionally come up with project ideas and put some varying amount of effort into it before I end up dropping it.  (The software projects I host here might be reasonable examples of that.  They’ve been stagnant for how long?)

Last night, I was slightly more optimistic that my idea could be pulled off, but I’m becoming increasingly convinced that there’s not much viability behind starting yet another “overheard” site (with a few friends as fellow moderators, of course) unless I come up with an awesome gimmick that would make the idea interesting and more original.  Consider this post an RFC.

Plenty of people already (ab)use Twitter (myself included) for the same thing (when they’re not submitting quotes to one of those sites, anyway), and while longer comments and quotes can’t be relayed as easily, people still manage to get the job done.  There are Facebook groups (a terrible idea, by the way) dedicated to sharing the stupidity among fellow group members, too.  (I should know – I joined one at one point.)

If I were to go through with this anyway, I’m also stuck on the format and implementation.  While getting another Tumblr account (I reserved my name a while ago, but haven’t put it to use yet) would be one idea, something feels amiss about having to share user credentials with everyone involved with the site (as opposed to a per-user system).  I would probably put in another WordPress installation to start and work my way from there as it’s also the most expandable solution I can think of.

One of these days, I’ll probably put together a post with a few of the more hilarious and/or outrageous comments I have lining the edges of my class notebooks and chat logs, which were what triggered me to consider starting a new site in the first place.  In the meantime, you’ll just have to hope that the poor girl I overheard saying this can figure out what’s going on in time for Valentine’s Day.  Speaking of which…

Imagine that.  Once again, I’m brainstorming straight into a blog post.  It’s not like this hasn’t been done before…  I almost think this post is worthy of starting another tag:  “memory dump.”

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