New Idea... the Dudeist Point of View Magazine

[DigitalBuddha]

New shit has come to light;

So I was thinking (which is not really what I wanted to do this weekend) that Dudeism needs a mainstream voice; an online magazine of Dudeist thinking, a magazine of "like that's just our opinion, man," a Dudeist perspective on the news, politics, religion, the arts, music, sciences, history, pop culture, social networking and what-have-you.

A sort of "New Yorker magazine of Dudeism." Something like the DudesPaper, but more of a mass appeal used to offer Dudeist thinking on popular topics to the non-Dudeist world, and maybe even the square community, giving them an idea of Dudeism and the world of laid back slacking and general laziness.

Was thinking it could be called.......

DudePoint" or DudePoint.com  or something like that.

Any thoughts, dudes?

My first article would be on "Women, Dudeism and Beer," a favorite topic of mine. 

[mrpaddy]

I like it, man. I had a similar idea, but I think yours is probably easier to put into place. And the easier path is often the Duder path.

My idea, for the record, was a Dudeism podcast. Like a "Ask The Dudes" sort of thing - regular hosts, weekly guest dudeists or experts on things.. taking questions about anything, whether advice or opinion or just generally raising a discussion point and kicking it about.

I really like the idea but it sounds like a fair amount of work to get sorted - finding the people, sorting out the recording process, dealing with the frickin' time difference if we want to get anyone overseas involved... it's one of those things I'd really love to do but probably don't have all the necessary know-how to do it right.

So tell me more about your idea, man. How would you look at differentiating it from the Dudespaper?

[DigitalBuddha]

I like it, man. I had a similar idea, but I think yours is probably easier to put into place. And the easier path is often the Duder path.

My idea, for the record, was a Dudeism podcast. Like a "Ask The Dudes" sort of thing - regular hosts, weekly guest dudeists or experts on things.. taking questions about anything, whether advice or opinion or just generally raising a discussion point and kicking it about.

I really like the idea but it sounds like a fair amount of work to get sorted - finding the people, sorting out the recording process, dealing with the frickin' time difference if we want to get anyone overseas involved... it's one of those things I'd really love to do but probably don't have all the necessary know-how to do it right.

So tell me more about your idea, man. How would you look at differentiating it from the Dudespaper?

Not sure what it would look like, but I was thinking that it would be something like an online magazine version of free open source software (created in the same manner and maybe managed like open source applications are managed); an open source magazine created by all dudes worldwide. Not a Wiki per se', but a popular magazine run by a foundation similar to say Mozilla, but for a web based magazine. It would be run by a non-profit foundation.

And fuckin' eh, man; a podcast would be righteous!

[mrpaddy]

I like it, man. Having it open source would presumably have the potential to get a lot more content on there quicker and with more variation.. a great new Dudeist resource!

Anything I can do to help, let me know!

[forumdude]

To be honest I was thinking that maybe the Dudespaper should evolve into a more general interest sort of magazine. Move away from the Lebowski stuff and truly be a "Lifestyle Magazine for the Deeply Casual." So there's be columns on how to relax, simplify your life, easy ways to help feed the monkey, practical consumerism, ideas for activities that are unique and not the same old same old. Basically epicureanism but the original uncompromised first draft.

The website could use a total redesign and we could relegate the current lebowski centric stuff to a section all it's own.

Or do you guys think it would be better to start with something totally fresh?

[cckeiser]

When in doubt....do both!

[DigitalBuddha]

To be honest I was thinking that maybe the Dudespaper should evolve into a more general interest sort of magazine. Move away from the Lebowski stuff and truly be a "Lifestyle Magazine for the Deeply Casual." So there's be columns on how to relax, simplify your life, easy ways to help feed the monkey, practical consumerism, ideas for activities that are unique and not the same old same old. Basically epicureanism but the original uncompromised first draft.

The website could use a total redesign and we could relegate the current lebowski centric stuff to a section all it's own.

Or do you guys think it would be better to start with something totally fresh?

Good concepts there ForumDude. I would go for the "something totally fresh" approach mostly because I think the Dudespaper is cool like it is. The mass appeal concept would be great to see. "Lifestyle Magazine for the Deeply Casual" ...perfect tag line!

[forumdude]

Maybe Abide Magazine?

A Lifestyle Magazine for the Deeply Casual is the Dudespaper's tag line (see the logo) but we could always move it to the new site.

[Zen Dog]

There's a bimonthly magazine here called THE CHAP. Something like that would be awesome.

[DigitalBuddha]

The Culinary Section could be called "A Few Burgers, A Few Beers."

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[Zen Dog]

Well yeah.but I think it would really tie the world together if you could buy a hard copy from a station/airport bookstore.THE CHAP comes out every 2 months and isn't all that big but seems to be doing ok. It's all about being the right kind of chap.I read it from time to time.Well hey,I work on the railway so we treat these places as a library.I have often thought that it would be nice to have a dude version.

[DigitalBuddha]

Well yeah.but I think it would really tie the world together if you could buy a hard copy from a station/airport bookstore.THE CHAP comes out every 2 months and isn't all that big but seems to be doing ok. It's all about being the right kind of chap.I read it from time to time.Well hey,I work on the railway so we treat these places as a library.I have often thought that it would be nice to have a dude version.

Looks like a righteous mag...

http://thechapmagazine.co.uk/

[kilteddude]

Keep the dudespaper as more of a dudeist and Lebowski centric.  I think you still need to be able to appeal to those that are already here.  I know for sure I would read the new concept myself in whatever form it may take.

[Masked Dude]

Count me in!

And may I suggest for layouts, etc. if someone can't afford Adobe InDesign, a good FOSS alternative is Scribus. Just look at some tutorials about graphic design and learn grids and you're on your way!

[rev-jaholbrook]

I can dig the idea dudes.