dead blog gravesite
as happens so often, this bmoth comes from a completely tangential comment in an interactive environment.
<GabeW> lots of folks have dean blogs
<rojisan> s/n/d
<rojisan> lots of folks have dead blogs
so, here’s the idea. the critical gap is the revenue stream, but that’s nothing new.
deadblogs.com – the pie/echo/atom-enabled place to move all your unwanted, abandoned and otherwise dead blog data. tired of your blog? changing software? whatever. feed your data to deadblogs.com, and it’s archived, forever, on “dead”icated low-speed servers for all the universe to link.
we can have people sponsor adopt-a-dead-blog events, so people don’t have to start from scratch, they can have a week, a month, or even years of “backstory” already done by someone else and just waiting for their new material.
it’s really sort of an expanding-the-commons thing, which is more of a social model than a business model, but… hey. there’s gotta be a revenue stream in here somewhere. you have an hour to find it.
update (2003.09.14 08:06): this has been around for a while (i shared it with akma a while ago – just now getting back to the blog with it), but… akma has found it. maybe. there’s still some issues over price points.
update (2003.09.14 08:26): the model is improving dramatically.