If you were put in charge of a new Whiskey Media site...
By ReyGitano 27 Comments
...what would it be? It was a question I was asked recently and I found it surprisingly difficult to come up with an answer on the spot. For the most part Whiskey Media already covers the major food groups of my life: video games, movies, tech, comics, and anime.
There's been a lot of discussion about what kind of sites we'd like to see, music being a popular choice for example, but I can't imagine having to listen to music all hours of the day to do reviews on every new album. Is it even worth it considering how broad and subjective music is? Even if you take reviews out of the equation you would still have to provide content, so would it mostly be news about bands? What kind of bands and artists does the site cover? Musical taste on these forums are diverse, so it would be difficult to decide on a genre to dedicate the site to.
So instead I want to pose a different question, what kind of site would you like to run that isn't already covered? Here's some of my choices
Slashing Riff dot com
I'm thinking these names up on the spot, so I know they kinda suck, but Slashing Riff would definitely be a site I'd like to run. I'm not even sure what kind of content I would put out or even what the wiki would look like, but I do know this; I love Guitars. Also I'm about as broke as a college student can get, which means that my dream of buying a decent guitar anytime soon will have to be put on hold for a very very long time. Still, with this site, we'd be getting in the newest models all the time to try out. Throw in some amps and guitar effects for good measure, and I might as well be a child in a candy store. As for content, maybe we could get in some local bands and musicians to try out the instruments, tell us how they feel about them, and even get in an unrelated interview for good measure. Now that I've given it more thought, maybe the wiki can connect guitars to their general models, the company that makes them, and even artists who use them. As for reviews, I have no idea what serious critics use to review how good a guitar is, but I know what my system will be; how well can I play Guile's theme on it?
Also, all videos will be made using awful visual filters, effects, and transitions, similar to every bad internet video and PowerPoint presentation from the 90's. The plan is that Hipsters will come swarming in since I'm predicting they are due for a 90's retro indie cycle any moment now. After the first year, they'll move on, denouncing the site. We then change our video editing style to a normal sensible model, and our actual audience will be able to move in. This way we guarantee that Hipsters will never sully the forums, and we gain a large audience right way and later replace it with a permanent one rather than gradually building it up over time. Of course there is a good chance this will all backfire horribly and I'll never be employed again, but such is the maiden we call the internet.
Peak Clutch dot com
Yeah, I just made up a domain name using the same formula as Top Gear. Building on top of the idea of using a website for my own selfish gain, I would enjoy running Peak Clutch as a car website just for the sake of being able to test out top of the line cars that I'll never get the chance to actually own. I'm tired of life ripping cars away from me that should have been mine.
On top of being able to take around cars for a joyride, I would welcome the opportunity to actually learn more about them and how to figure out what's wrong when my car breaks down. We didn't have autoshop at my High School, and my dad never had a chance to teach me anything outside of how to change a tire. Now if only I had a car...
Five Puppies dot com
Five Puppies would simply be dedicated to documenting cuteness in its purest form: puppies. Reviews would consist of a system of adorableness, meaning that our site will still use the five point system found on Whiskey Media sites, except this time with only one unit of measure, 5 puppies. On a side note, I once told Matt Rorie that there were no puppies on my blog; he was not amused. In fact he told me he was going to start doing heroine again, and I can't help but feel partly responsible. Hopefully this makes up for my horrible trespass upon his soul. Why would I want to run this website? Well for one, my mom was afraid of dogs, so I was never allowed to have one. Besides...
... look how cute they are! Of course the interns working below me will be in charge of all the difficulties: bathes, training, picking up droppings. I'll just be there to bask in their love. I'd say we would also make a sister site called Five Kittens, but that domain seems to already be taken.
So, what kind of site would you run given the opportunity?
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