In dreams begin responsibilities

Here are some of my dreams for the new, renovated Mighty Corrente Building:

1. CivicSpace/Drupal is programmable (unlike blogger). I hope we can use CorrenteWire as a platform to help build communities electronically. (That's one reason the Calendar is there at top right; contributors and affiliates can add local events, and readers remind us to write about them. For example, I've wanted to hear about meetings at the res for the longest time.)

2. An affiliates program. I'd like to give "long tail" blogs a way to guest post on CorrenteWire more often. Not that our audience is humongous, but it's larger than some. This is a kind of bottom up or horizontal approach that's a little different from the BlogPAC approach.

3. I'd like to branch out into other areas than electoral politics, essential though that is. What's the way to deal with corporatism? Leaving aside ideas of taking away legal personhood from corporations, you have to attack their bottom line, to which they are very sensitive (naturally). Even 1%... One fact common to corporatism is that it wants to take pleasure away from us; corporate food, corporate music... Yuck. Real tomatoes are better! DIY music is better! Where better means: really pleasurable. All of this is highly political; you are what you eat; you are what you hear. So, we have a recipes section. I'd like to have a music section as well; heck, even a money section. And for anyone who says, "That's lifestyle!" I say, No! It's life! (Something of which a corporatist knows nothing....

4. I'd like to develop many more ways for people to contribute to the CorrenteWire community, and since this platform is programmable, we can do that. DIY reporting... Posting from cell phones... Podcasts....

5. I also love the categories. Unlike blogger, we won't simply lose stuff when it falls off the front page. And since to govern is to choose, and to choose is to have categorized, we're paving the way for a return to governance by people who want government working by, for, of the people. Grandiose, I know...

Readers, what are some of your ideas?