Lets face it. The RudiusMedia.com site kind of sucks. Sure it's got some information about who we are and what we do, but it's this sort of high level, 30,000 foot view of us as a company. It's boring and if you've been there once, there's no reason to go back. RudiusMedia.com is the high school science fair of websites.
Lets change that. We're a media and entertainment company. RudiusMedia.com should reflect that by bringing you media and entertainment as its first priority. All that "mission statement this" and "f.a.q. that" should be secondary. No one gets excited by a company with a cool "about us" page. Lets give people something to get excited about.
I've started to play around with the front page. It's not perfect, hell it's not even good but it is a start. I want to spend the next few weeks figuring out what works and what doesn't. It's not beta yet, it's not even really alpha but if you've got suggestions I want to hear them. And don't worry about sending me the obvious. There's a lot I know I need to do but I miss things, so send the obvious, the not so obvious and the down right esoteric. Any thing you see that we could be do better would be awesome.
If TuckerMax.com is the sun of the Rudius Media universe and GaijinSmash is a super massive planet, then I'm not even Pluto. I'm closer to asteroid 28978 and for once, that's a good thing. It means that we have a chance to develop something really cool before the rest of the Internet finds out about it. All that stuff I've been talking about for a year? Now is the chance to play around with it, practice it, test drive it and see what melts the tires.
So here are the sort of broad guidelines:
-I want to showcase the content created in the Rudius Media universe.
-I want to point to cool stuff we find out there on the Internet.
-At some point the tech will catch up with the community, so there will be user accounts and moderators but infrastructure without anyone to use it doesn't do anyone any good.
I'm not looking to recreate digg or boingboing or metafilter or anyone else. I want this project to have it's own unique feel. There are plenty of other places to find funny pictures of dogs and honestly, I don't think that's what Rudius does best. So lets identify what Rudius does well and create a universe around that. Lets create a community.
Of course I have all my own opinions on all of this but I want to hear what you guys have to say. Maybe my assumptions are wrong, I'm never going to know unless you all tell me. So leave any suggestions you have in the comments of this post and we'll start trying things to see what works.
Posted by Ben Corman at 2:03 PM