Stone Soup – A Great Tale
Posted on September 1, 2010 by Jexley
Not long ago, an idea hit me. I was thinking of ways to make The Web a better place, even if only a little bit.
See, I know all these designers and developers and content writers and usability experts and all-around seriously smart people, ALL of whom are quite good at whatever Web Thing it is that they do. Some blog, some don’t, but most don’t blog a lot, or are writing at least intermittently enough that I miss out on much of their stuff because I forget to check back.
So, I have all of these smart people, most in different areas of Web Awesomeness, most of whom like to write already… hmmm…
You see where I’m going with this?
So I sent an email with a reference to the Story of Stone Soup. If you’re unfamiliar with it, give it a quick read. If you hate links, it’s about some Ye Olde Worlde folks passing through a town, who dupe the townspeople into creating a huge and wonderful meal, just by combining their meagre resources.
The main lesson being someone gave everyone a starting point with really no fixed direction past that other than a decent meal.
I hadn’t even named it yet, but after that email I went out got it registered straightaway. One of my favourite folks, the lovely and talented Patrick Templeman Twells (a web designer and developer in Mandurah) offered to design it and even gave me the HTML and CSS for it! Grabbed a quick deal on hosting, installed WordPress, slapped in a theme, and…
Stone Soup – Recipes for a Better Web was born!
I’ve got a brilliant smattering of folks signing into it too, and some are even writing already.
I reckon it’s time to start promoting this thing! I think it’s going to get quite popular.
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