We’ll just have to disagree on pretty much everything here.
I am not taking this personally per se, but you continue to discount and/or minimize factual examples and keep pushing some meme that I’m defeatist when I clearly said we need things like you propose, but that isn’t the answer. That’s not defeatist, that’s rational thought backed up by the functioning of the political process we live in..
RE: The FR comparison - The one thing that significantly between your plan and FR is the monitization issue. And even there, Bloggers monitze their articles they post on their sites and link to FR all the time, thus it’s not really that different after all.
As for the rest, well, as the saying goes, you are entitled to your beliefs, but not to your own facts.
I wish you the best in your endeavor and I hope it succeeds. I honestly do. But I maintain that Big $$$ are the driving force to get things done.
Once again, you fail to understand what it is that I’m designing/developing.
Like I said, it’s not at all like FR, although some bits of it might duplicate some of what FR and other blogs/discussion sites do. But, that would be between 5-10% of the functions of my idea.
FR, and other discussion sites are very limited in scope. FR, for example, does not have a facility for hosting articles by specific authors/columnists/publishers, and I would provide for “search” of articles via authors, publishers, date/date range, categories (up to 4 levels/sublevels), subjects/topics/issues, geographic location (country, region/state, city), article title (3 variations: 1) full title; up to 10 keywords within the article that must, 2) either all exist in title, or 3) just have any of them in the title), article type (news, information, opinion, etc), publisher type (newspaper, TV, radio, magazine, independent reporter/columnist, etc), a sort order. It would allow search specifications of any of the above, or any combination of the above, or even all of the above.
Articles could be hosted on “my” site, or off-site (publisher, author/columnist own site). A means is provided for linking to external discussion sites for each article, for up to 20 such links.
So, for example, if someone wanted to “find” all the articles written by Krauthammer, for all of December/2006, relating to Obama and Pelosi and Congress, relating to the elections, and where energy happens to be one of the topics, then the system would allow all of that criteria in one “simple” search, and would return any and all articles that meet the criteria.
Within the returned results, each article would contain links to web sites where discussions relating to the article are occurring. Anyone who reads the article could start a discussion on any other website, and then enter that website’s URL into the article so that other people could visit that other site to partake in the discussion. “My” site would not offer a discussion area, since, all discussions would be on “other” sites. FR is a forum for discussing issues, mostly initiated from quoted/linked articles. I could offer the facility for discussing any and all articles, but, I believe it’s better to just leave it to others, including FR.