On eating meat (beef vs. pork):

(11:08:03 AM) thisseverance: I would prefer a cow.
(11:08:06 AM) jesusmcmurphy: Oh yeah?
(11:08:08 AM) thisseverance: Yes.
(11:08:15 AM) jesusmcmurphy: Isn't that cannibalism?

Halflit.net

Back to brainstorming for the website. Halflit.net is not my personal website (my personal website is there: http://crows.halflit.net), but it is intended to be a community. I'd originally intended it for writers (it's what I know) but I'm wondering if the greater good might be served by viewing it more as a 'creative' community. My 'artist' friends sometimes have the best advice for my writer self, and exploring different creative media never fails to get me out of some of my ruts, at least for a little while.

I'm just not sure what to do with it. I want to be able to offer people in a small community different things than are filled by the niches that our pervasive social networking fills on the internet (MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, blog sites ad nauseum). I don't have anything like the technology available to me to recreate something massive like that, nor do I want to. However, I want to establish a place that people want to spend time at, contribute to, and benefit from.

So here's to all my creative friends (which is all of you really, you're my type <3) whether you're a musician, visual artist, writer, or whatever you do:

What would you want to see in a specialized online community?

What, if anything, does your social network(s) of choice not provide to you in terms of resources, connection, workshop/feedback/critique, inspiration, or whatever?

What would interest you enough to establish membership on an online community?

What would you like to contribute to a group, if a group of open- and (generally) like-minded people existed in a dynamic community?