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[hi-C]

I've been (and others) have been thinking about this for a while:

Would anyone like to help revive cB News?

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Also, related to this, would anyone be interested in creating a cB music magazine? It would be similar to cB News with different articles and reviews and such, and maybe a photography section if someone goes to a concert and takes pictures and stuff.

[sadolakced acid]

i agree a theme could help, but with cB's diverse community it'd be hard to find a unifying theme.

what i'm going to say now is just what i envisioned it would be like when i thought of this idea.

first, we'd have a few weekly "column" type posts, for instance, a movie update, a music update, a politics update, etc. based mainly on providing information. We can also have focus articles on various topics

between these we'd have room for editorial comments on the information, opinion pieces and the like.

basically, it'd be like Time magazine in blog form, written by cBers.

cB news had good content, it was just delivered wrong. with a blog format allowing for individual up-to-date postings, as well as the ability of the community to comment, i think it will work.

so as for a general theme; i think providing a consice place for teenagers to receive information about their world might work.

Eventually, if it's possible to be integrated into cB accounts, it'd be very awesome if you were able to select which content you wanted to view; for instance, you could choose to not view "US politics" if you were not interested. unlikely to happen before the blog is sucessful, so don't dwell on this idea.


so, does this seem like something people would read?

and as for where this would be physically located? Well, i hope it could eventually be the front page. that is unlikely to happen immediately, but i hope we ccould start out with a "blog" or "news" link next to the "forums" link on the first page, or better yet, seperate with a sentence introducing it so we'd get more clicks.

and yes; this would be open to contribution from anyone. We would need editors to help choose what is quality enough to get in, and because this is a position of power, i think all editors should have a weekly column as well, to ensure we have enough columnists. Hopefully it will get to the point that the columnists will be able to post without need for pre-editing, although that would certainly be needed at first.