Tuesday, August 23, 2005
Stop fi.v..e....r.....e......c.........o.............r.................
excerpt from a memo to Bry:
This sounds exciting! Everyone is buzzing! This internet stalker has become an instant celebrity!
I should just mention that we all realize you wouldn't do something this extreme unless there was a very good reason.
I have an idea about how you could take this thang underground, because you're right:
STop Five Records must never die!
First you should get all regular contributors to submit to you new potential valid blogger domain names (AKA STop Five's new name!) for your new site.
The winning entry should then be subject to whatever form of raffle-type contest you wish to name; although you will, of course, have the final say about all STop Five related matters.
Even if we choose not to stay with the actual Blogger domain, I think a new identity (still founded on the old) is a good idea at this time.
I visited http://topfiverecords.blogspot.com, and if it were possible i would suggest a hostile takeover of their operation.
However, anuther option is to not just change our address but to go completely off the grid, so to speak.
This would require some in-house web designers, which we have, to build layers of inspicuous web sites acting as gateways and password-protected go-betweens to our new site.
Like Robin Hood's secret hideout, or the BatCave, or best of all The Lost World of Arthur Conan Doyle.
The whole point of all this is, of course, to avoid threats of harm to us personally and also to the important work we do.
To accomplish this we must either maintain a publicly accessible site with as little or no personal information on it as possible or we can choose to drop off the face of the earth, inviting into our secret society only those whom Bryan personally approves.
My gosh it is the Lost World! Only the one man who has been there himself can guide others to it. And so it can be with us.
Oh man, this is so cool I'm geekin out like crazy!
Anyway, for the consideration of the Society of (see this is why we need a new identity) I leave this post.
Rob