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subigo
Joined: 09 Jan 2004
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 Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 7:03 pm Post subject: Stash the Cache is now an online ezine. |
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After talking with quite a few people (some of you too) I realized that the old site wasn't getting me anything but death threats. So, hopefully this is something that everyone can enjoy.
http://www.stashthecache.com
I have talked with a publisher and if everything goes good we are looking at turning this into a actual paper magazine for you to buy. Currently it would be coming out in about a year.
Anyone that would like to help out just needs to ask here or on our forums. It is very possible that people writing articles for the site would also be asked to do so for the publication. You can write about anything you want as long as it is gps related in some way (nothing will be censored).
Hopefully this will bring my death threat count down and be something that everyone likes.
p.s. - If opencaching gets off the ground by the time we actually get published, then we could possibly hook you guys up with a free ad or two. |
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Renegade Knight
Joined: 15 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| Well that certainly was an interesting shift in focus. |
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welch
Joined: 25 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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Its good your not stealing caches, but how is this newsletter going to punish groundspeak?? (the previous goal right)
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subigo
Joined: 09 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 10:30 pm Post subject: |
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| welch wrote: | | Its good your not stealing caches, but how is this newsletter going to punish groundspeak?? (the previous goal right) |
Well, gc.com never did care if I took anyones cache. As long as it was only a few people doing it, in one small area of the world, they could care less. (Stashing did hurt gc.com in a small way, since fewer people actually used them while I was doing it.) They are more concerned with the money the site brings in than anything else.
So I realized the only thing that would make them hurt would be competition. People are already looking for other places to find caches, but as of right now gc.com is the only real place they can find them... I talked to a few programmer friends of mine and tossed the idea of making a caching database site, but figured there are already people working on this (opencaching) and it wasn't something I would have a ton of fun doing.
Anyway, I have a friend who is the editor of one of the largest magazines in the midwest and he put the idea of a geocaching magazine in my head. I know some people have thought of this before, but it doesnt look like anyone actually did it. We talked with his publisher and basically got the okay to get it printed if there was enough of a following. (we estimated this at about a year)...
So it's like this, I can try for a year to get people into the site and backing it, and if nobody does, well I tried. But, if it does end up getting a nice following, it will be the first magazine to get printed on the topic of geocaching. Which brings me to the answer to your question, if a geocaching magazine is printed, who do you think will be the first ones wanting to advertise in it? gc.com. - And guess who will never get an advertisment in this magazine? gc.com. I dont care how much they would offer.
I am hoping that opencaching is actually off the ground and running in a year, because anytime an article tells people where to find cache listings, I want to send them here or navicache. Until gc.com opens up the doors to its community, the mag. will boycott them.
So, it might not do much, but I know it will do more than stashing a few caches. |
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Scout
Joined: 16 Sep 2003
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Good luck in your venture. The odds are stacked against you.
First, content. Information about caches changes too fast. Your magazine will be stale before it's published. And if you fill it with information about geocaching in general, you'll find an incredible lack of fresh things to talk about. Take a look at the gc.com forums for how often the same tired subjects get recycled. Maybe you can find enough human interest stories (reports on picnics, a day-in-the-life of a super cacher, celebrity geocachers, etc.) to fill a magazine, but how soon will even that begin to look repetitious?
Second, you will have compeition. For example, http://www.todayscacher.com/ .
Probably most important, anyone whose business plan includes starting a geocaching magazine and boycotting gc.com at the same time hasn't thought this whole thing out.
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subigo
Joined: 09 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 3:16 am Post subject: |
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| Scout wrote: | Good luck in your venture. The odds are stacked against you.
First, content. Information about caches changes too fast. Your magazine will be stale before it's published. And if you fill it with information about geocaching in general, you'll find an incredible lack of fresh things to talk about. Take a look at the gc.com forums for how often the same tired subjects get recycled. Maybe you can find enough human interest stories (reports on picnics, a day-in-the-life of a super cacher, celebrity geocachers, etc.) to fill a magazine, but how soon will even that begin to look repetitious?
Second, you will have compeition. For example, http://www.todayscacher.com/ .
Probably most important, anyone whose business plan includes starting a geocaching magazine and boycotting gc.com at the same time hasn't thought this whole thing out. |
I have the funds to back it for a few years (if it even gets started), so that won't be a problem. You are correct that caches change too fast, but the magazine isn't going to revolve around caches. A year is a long time, geocaching might get a hundred times bigger over the next year, but then again it could just get old for a lot of people. Besides, it will only come out quarterly. Nobodys in this to make money... it's simply going to be a hobby for a bunch of people, and if we want to boycott gc.com - more power to us.
P.S. - Have you seen some of the magazines on the rack at Barnes and Noble? You can't tell me that geocaching has less content avalible for a magazine than some of those. |
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Scout
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| Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2004 12:25 pm Post subject: |
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| subigo wrote: | I have the funds to back it for a few years ...
Nobodys in this to make money... it's simply going to be a hobby for a bunch of people ... |
Great. It sounds like you understand the situation. Have fun. I look forward to reading it.
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georapper
Joined: 29 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 12:09 am Post subject: what's up with stashthecache.com? |
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| the url for stashthecache.com takes me to some freakin' religious site, hell, whats up with that? is the devil out to get me? |
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hmarq
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| Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 6:46 am Post subject: Re: what's up with stashthecache.com? |
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| georapper wrote: | | the url for stashthecache.com takes me to some freakin' religious site, hell, whats up with that? is the devil out to get me? |
Me too. Lot's of ways that can happen, but it does look fubar at the moment. ... either a bad dns record, moving servers or a screwed up virtualhost on the web server would be my top three things to check (if anyone cares)  |
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cwoper
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| Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2004 12:30 am Post subject: |
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Maybe Subigo is not all together there.You know, like he's maybe a little  |
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