Re: Website for GWL: plans, issues, help wanted

**"Barbara Martin" c*@adelphia.net**

Are you actually suggesting a dot com commercial site selling advertising
and covering expenses but not paying its writers? Undercutting the
competition? Swapping exposure for no-fee work? That could represent a real
can of worms to professional writers and photographers, if I may represent
the devil's advocate and some outspoken others. (grin)

Barbara M. Martin

"Garden Wildlife" Mid-Atlantic Garden Report:
http://nationalgardening.com/regional/report13.html
Now at Cottage Garden: "Cottage Garden Valentine"
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/253/98210
My Bonsai Potato Photos  http://www.suite101.com/topic_page.cfm/253/3890
----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911@juno.com>
To: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, February 08, 2003 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [GWL] Website for GWL: plans, issues, help wanted

> I tend to get rather grandiose ideas, for which I am taking medication.
> But at the moment it isn't working very well. Never has, in fact.
>
> It occurs to me that we may have here the greatest one-site concentration
> of expertise on every aspect of home gardening on the Internet. Or not,
> but let's dream for the moment that we do. Sure, there are commercial and
> university Web sites with perhaps more expert sources, but they are
> either narrowly focused or commercially propriatory or regional. We are
> broad based.
>
> I think that, yes, absolutely, an org site catering to the interests of
> garden writers and run by volunteers would be extraordinarily valuable.
> To us. And to any civilians who happened to stumble across it. (I can't
> think offhand of any secrets we might want to keep to ourselves that
> would prohibit public access.)
>
> Or ...
>
> We could go the dot-com route. Sell advertising (we know who they are,
> don't we) and use the money to pay for a professional web developer and
> turn it into the most ass-kickin' gardening site on the Internet. Since
> it wouldn't be a true dot-com -- not out to make millions, just enough to
> pay for the expenses -- we could sell the advertising cheap enough to be
> attractive for those less affluent than the green giants. There might
> even be money left over to pay some contributors. Who knows.
>
> Are there problems? Oh, Lord, are there problems! I'm not pretending this
> is a blueprint, just a vision. An idea that might be included in the
> general atmosphere of our discussion on Web sites.
>
> I am now preparing to duck and cover.
>
> D
>
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