Just thinking aloud on the musical question “So what does St. Louis need?” and coming up with a myriad of answers ranging from “more people” to “better schools” to “an enema.” Any of those responses is correct – some more than others – but none of them are intriguing me at the moment.
“A web magazine,” on the other hand, does sort of stick in the mind just now.
Trying to decide just what I mean by that. Is it a city-centric publication with an established staff of writers and editors? Or something more fluid – an aggregation of local bloggers, perhaps? Or something in the middle?
Is it focused on hard news? Arts and lifestyle? Off-beat stories on little-noted aspects of the St. Louis metro area? What exactly?
Is it a venture meant to augment the publications already available here, or is it intended to replace them? Is it supposed to be journalism? Or something else?
Are efforts like The Morning News and Gapers Block models to emulate?
How much would this cost?
Most important to me at the moment, perhaps: Is it something that I should be thinking about right now, considering that I have enough to do already? Wouldn’t be better – for me, that is – if someone else (you, maybe) came along and executed this idea?
See, this is what comes of idle moments. You start wondering about, er, stuff.
Better to leave off thinking about this and go back to work. For now.
