Help! NCPR needs you to design our new blog!
We're ticking down the days to the end of the Ballot Box. (I still wake up in the morning and wonder what the overnight polls look like.)
NCPR's news team wants to maintain some kind of blog here on the home page, but it has to be something the North Country community will find useful, informative and entertaining.
In other words, something web guru Dale Hobson won't consign to the shadowy cupboard of our vast -- nay, Gormenghastian - website.
We're asking, begging for your input. Got an idea for a name? Any fantastic ideas that will trigger more comments, more on-line discussion?
Think of this as a desperate pledge-pitch-type situation...only instead of your dollars we need your clever suggestions, your wisdom, your opinions.
Think of the news blog sort of like Tinkerbell. If we can get enough people to believe in it, it will survive. Otherwise, not so much.
So hit the comment below and wax on.
posted by Brian Mann @ 11/17/2008 01:47:00 PM
14 Comments
14 Comments:
Tip of the hat to Brian for referencing Gormenghast Castle AND Tinkerbell in the same posting. Maybe we could combine these two names for the new blog? "Gormenbell? Tinkerghast?" If nothing else, this is proof that we (desperately) need your help coming up with a name for our new blog. Thanks, JB
This is so sad. The web guy will bury you fifteen levels down for sure.
How about Northern Lights. It isn't "fantastic" but since th elist is so short at the moment...
How about "the dump?" The north country's equivalent of the public square everywhere else: a reliable place to get local news and gossip (plus discarded lumber and bicycle parts).
When I was a kid folks used to meet up at "the dump" to watch grizzlies roust through the trash for snacks. So that was sort of a common ground, of sorts. But I don't think that quite captures what we're going for...
Northern lights is sort of interesting.
Keep trying!
Brian
I think "Northern Lights" is from Adirondack Life. Might be confusing.
how about "points north?"
correction. "points north" is the SUNY Plattsburgh student paper.
Some other ideas to get the creative juices flowing (because, clearly, I have no shame):
Ruralities
Northern Idyll
The Tuner/The Speaker/The Dial, etc
Radio Button
Ignis Fatuus (no)
The Idea of North (chapter title from The Golden Compass - also no)
The North Post
Wavelength/Frequency
The North Tower
The Northern Line
The Outpost
The Bog Blog
NNYBlog
I could keep going, but no one (including me) wants that.
I like "The North Post" - what do you all think? JB
Oh, I regret that Brian doesn't like "The Dump". I am old enough to remember Maui's own Makawao dump very fondly. (A natural pre-runner to official reduce/reuse/recycle admonishments.)
Long-time Maui journalist Tom Stevens describes that very well here (I'd add this as a link, but I don't know how to do that in a posted comments)
http://www.nokaoimagazine.com/Departments/Pau_Hana/One_Man_s_Trash.html
No grizzlies, except the human kind. Ah, nostalgia.
sorry, that URL got cut off.
http://www.nokaoimagazine.com/Departments/Pau_Hana/One_Man_s_Trash.html
Jeepers! The cut off portion is this:
na/One_Man_s_Trash.html
sorry for the humbug.
I like "Ruralities". "North Post" is good too - but I find the words "north/northern" to be over used. (Hence my own business name, BOREALIS Color! when in doubt, go Latinate!) And to call something "North" on NCPR kind of overlooks our Canadian friends, doesn't it?
"Ruralities" is clever in that it sounds like a conflation of "rural realities".
Or, to pursue the first commnet, how about "Tinkergorm", or "Bellenghast"?
I like "State of the Upstate" myself. ;-)
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