Burnt Orange Report Version 3.0: Donate
By Karl-Thomas Musselman
I figure that on today, my 5th Anniversary of personal blogging outside of Burnt Orange Report, I'd announce that in the next week, Burnt Orange Report will have a new look and new platform, taking Texas blogging to the next level at last. I have reached a deal with a developer whose work I first noticed last summer (when I abandoned plans to move over to a new system based on Xoops).
The new Burnt Orange Report will load faster, be less cluttered, and more importantly empower our community of readers to the level they deserve. There will be user accounts just like you'd find over at Daily Kos or MyDD. Users will be able to comment and rate each other and conversations will be threaded for viewing by all readers, allowing for true conversations to occur on posts. And in what I believe will be the greatest advancement for the Texas Blogosphere, I'll be proud to introduce "Burnt Orange Journals" where any registered user can now become a contributor to the site as you would at Kos or MyDD, with a recommend feature and promotion.
But all this wouldn't be possible without the hard work being carried out by the developer, and the MovableType converter being built specifically for us since BOR is the first MT based blog to come on board his project. If there is anything I am at heart a fan of, it's geeky tech projects that are in any way community oriented. Especially if they are being done by progressives, for progressives.
And because of that, I'm doing something that I rarely do, which is ask for donations from our readership to help cover the costs of this great leap forward.
I'm only looking for $200-$300. But as a bonus, I'll give donors the option of creating the first low ID user accounts right there with our Front Page writers, getting a sneak peak at what we are building, even as I'm working on completing the design and controls!
SPECIAL HONOR: Donors giving $25+ will receive one of the 7 remaining single digit User IDs.
Posted by Karl-Thomas Musselman at January 19, 2006 12:38 AM
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