K, here is a brainstorm (don't laugh):
- Someone interviews Adam and Brian.
- Interview random people about the community.
- Someone sets up a poll on their website and asks as many people to answer the questions. (The questions could be really serious or very silly.)
- A story about musicians on MindSay, ask JakeRad or McLii (for ideas, or for writings.)
- A story or two (a comparative article) from people who have met others through MindSay. Perhaps two ends of the spectrum?
- Try to find writers from each of the major continents and/or different countries and ask them each to write a paragraph or two on what they've learned from/about others from different countries.
- Someone very analitical could write a humorous (or strighforward) piece about the different types of bloggers. (ie. the dramatist, the documentator, the humorist, the writer, the artist, the quizmaster, one time poster, the politician, etc.) With interviews and/or links.
- A story on the effects of Version updates.
- Someone could even make a ficticious lunch menu (oooh, amazingrobot has some expertise in that!)
- An editorial on what blogging has meant to the writer.
- A memorial on the bloggers who have moved on and left. Dropping names. A walk down memory lane. lol
- Quotes regarding different topics or a very general collection.
Whoever writes these could do them in whatever style they want. They can post them on their website, ask others for contributions. Yearbook, in the end would host all of these collections, making it the place to go for a glimpse into our lives! Very cool.
Maybe you would even want (after phase 2 is over) to put up a submission page. You can put it under the bookmarks (much like my "linkback page" in mine). The submission entry would contain guidelines, a cautionary note saying you do not promise the submission will go up, but you welcome everyone to submit stories.
Eventually, you wouldn't even have to write stuff, just post what others submit.