Where did that awesome 2.0 site for “writers” go?
Monday, April 7th, 2008
So there used to be a really cool web 2.0 site for the writing community, and for the life of me I can’t remember the name of this thing! It was super cool because you could sign up and create a profile that specified how often you were supposed to write to hold you accountable to that goal. If you didn’t meet that goal then it would state on your public profile that your accountability was poor. If I remember correctly your name was listed in green when your accountability was high and in red when it was low. I LOVE this idea because I love to write but I’m really bad about holding myself accountable so I thought that this was such a clever way to give writers a push. The other really cool thing about this writing community was that you could start a story (in a similar way you start a thread) and other members of the site could collaborate on your story. I believe you would be notified in your profile that others had collaborated as well. Once someone had collaborated you had a new deadline to contribute to the story. I created a few of these “story starters” and had some pretty good collaborators contribute. It was really fun to see where people went with your idea. If you didn’t collaborate by your deadline you were publicly shunned in the community….just kidding, I think your profile turned red or something showing that you contributer creditability had gone down. The members of this writing website who had the highest accountability were posted on the homepage enticing all the members to read their stuff. I can proudly say that I was on the homepage for a short time, okay a very short time.
Man- after remembering all the cool features of this site it really is a bummer I can’t find it. I wonder if it’s still around? Part of my problem is that I can never remember all my user names for these web 2.0 sites. I should just make one user name and I know a lot of people are starting to build up comment creditability from that user name (and that’s a whole other blog topic) but I kind of hate doing that. I’m not sure why. If I could remember my user name for that site I probably could find it that way. Does anyone know of the site I’m talking about? If so, please let me know!
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