Exploring the idea of being a blogger for hire
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some more context:
1) i live and work in downtown seattle. i do a lot of data work, and a lot of deep research and analysis. feel feel to use technical terms, though i may ask for clarification from time to time (and will most likely appeal to the community to help resolve a dispute). i am a free-market libertarian, but i'm also a fiscally-conservative bleeding heart (classical) liberal with a strong bias toward environmentalism warped through the lens of smart modern government and free markets (for products, services, and information). i am of and from the northwest, for better or worse. and i would like to see downtown seattle become a vibrant community (it's almost there, it just needs a little PUSH...).
2) i propose the following three non-profits for the experiment (assuming they are cool with it, which i will check before actually launching anything):
1) i live and work in downtown seattle. i do a lot of data work, and a lot of deep research and analysis. feel feel to use technical terms, though i may ask for clarification from time to time (and will most likely appeal to the community to help resolve a dispute). i am a free-market libertarian, but i'm also a fiscally-conservative bleeding heart (classical) liberal with a strong bias toward environmentalism warped through the lens of smart modern government and free markets (for products, services, and information). i am of and from the northwest, for better or worse. and i would like to see downtown seattle become a vibrant community (it's almost there, it just needs a little PUSH...).
2) i propose the following three non-profits for the experiment (assuming they are cool with it, which i will check before actually launching anything):
(1) the fisher house (https://www.fisherhouse.org)
(2) seadrunar (http://www.seadrunar.org/)
(3) real change seattle (http://realchangenews.org/index.php/site/about/org)
but anyway, the idea is to become a blogger for hire. i'm currently employed full time, so how about i pick a non-profit that i like and support, and help raise some funds for them. just to build up some karma (aka karma penguins! ?:http://i.imgur.com/36TJXTr.jpg :: +1! : yay!).
and why stop there? let's pick three, and see what kind of crazy concoctions we can create in the internetz. so i want to run a semi-open-sourced multi-charity/-non-profit (in the sense that i retain ownership of my campaign, my instance, my business entity, my self), where i try to build some cool stuff and ask for help from the community along the way.
is that something you might be interested in, E(HN)? i want to have some fun with it, while keeping it entirely "above board" legally-speaking, software-hacker-speaking, ethically-speaking, and common-sense-speaking.
oh, and i really like memes. expect a lot of them here. let's get creative with it.