Early this year I used a wonderful Christmas gift to buy a lively, colorful template and a domain name, and I set about building what I hoped would be a freedomista portal — sort of a daily starting place for all things to do with living free.<\/p>\n
I was going great guns on the project until I ran into a couple of tiny coding issues. The young man I hired to help took nearly two months to do the hour or so’s worth of work (couldn’t fire him; he was a friend’s son; and to his credit when it was all over he refused to charge me). Anyhow, by the time I could get back to the site … fizzle. I had run out of steam.<\/p>\n
All year I’ve promised myself I’d finish the project and get the site online. But now the hosting company tells me my free year is running out and this morning I had to face the reality: I am never going to do this on my own.<\/p>\n
In addition to the fizzlement, the fact is that any such site these days has to include a social networking component, and I’m about as interested in social networking as I am in running for president. <\/p>\n
I had hoped that the site would be a fun place to gather — both for experienced freedomistas and for newbies seeking resources. I had also hoped it could generate a few hundred dollars a month from advertising, Amazon links, and various other vendor deals. But with me alone, it’s not going to do any of that.<\/p>\n
So … would anybody be interested in “adopting” a freedomista site? I’m open to various arrangements, from ones that kick me clean out the door to ones in which I play a subsidiary role. <\/p>\n
If you’re interested and have either coding skills or marketing skills (or, amazing thing, both), let’s talk. And you have the enthusiasm to make it happen, of course. You can drop an email to me here: freedomsite at hermit dot cotse dot net. I can show you the work in progress (it’s online, just not publicly accessible) and tell you more about what I had in mind. If you’re still interested and I think you can bring to the site what it needs, we can talk business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Early this year I used a wonderful Christmas gift to buy a lively, colorful template and a domain name, and I set about building what I hoped would be a freedomista portal — sort of a daily starting place for all things to do with living free. I was going great guns on the project until I ran into a couple of tiny coding issues. The young man I hired to help took nearly two months to do the hour or so’s worth of work (couldn’t fire him; he was a friend’s son; and to his credit when it was…<\/p>\n