Great idea. Give yourself an attaboy.
" please, feel free to point out mistakes,"
First off that shirt just doesn't go with those pants. :-)
"point out how to make a "ping" list for folks that want to be a part of this."
I had a campaign finance reform ping list, what I did is send myself an E-mail with the screen names on it. and saved it in a seperate folder. Whenever I had a new name I'd copy and paste the updated list in a new E-mail.
TS