[ Outline ] · Standard · Linear+ A thought I have been playing with, a bit of an request for help

[Deepone]

I have been talking about this for a while, and wanted to do it for maybe longer time. The dream is about a newspaper or news-site on internet that ONLY has good things. These days most newspapers are after scandals and disasters and so on, so this would be really refreshing. And would potentially attract customers. I am really thinking of actually doing this, and using YOU as a subject to decide how to go on with it..

1) What are your feelings on that, could it work (as a business)?
2) Would you like to follow such paper, even if the news would not be that often at the beginning ?
3) Could you be able to contribute by forwarding such news for me / the site?
4) Do you know where such sources could be found ?
5) What are your suggestions on with going on with the idea ?
6) Any improvement ideas ? Basically I'm going to try to go after the "newspaper" style. Because of the available resources I have thought of first using the internet, then maybe going for real papers and who knows, maybe also as tv-channel later on..

[Radnoken]

I'd have to look it up again, but there are sites that provide free news stories. You can select which ones you pick to display, or even add to your front page using an RSS feed. That's something that can help build up content on the site.

And there are tons of Content Management Scripts (CMS) that have a magazine type theme for them.

As for a buisness, starting out you pretty much have to use google adsense as a source of revenue, until you can build up your site to make people want to advertise on your site.

I don't think pay subscription sites are working as a whole (unless its porn), so unless you have experience in doing that, and the marketing know how to get people to pay for it, then I wouldn't try that avenue. The best example of this is www.fark.com. They didnt have originally, but now have added features you can pay for instead of having to pay to see the entire site.

If you need to pick my brain, just hit me up.