Hi all, I'm hoping some of you will contribute to this. I'm hoping to put out a daily 'news bulletin' on the front page. Not as late as this regularly, usually around 10-10:30 every night, which would contain the 'big' entertainment and music stories and I'm hoping that a few of you will be interested in taking part/help. Here are some ideas for daily sections which I thought we could include:

 

» a daily section on the 'midweeks', just giving a taste of what is happening without really giving much away - any big surprises, monumental sales etc.

» every Sunday/Monday, a section on the latest releases, with a link to MK's 'New Release Schedule'

» perhaps some international chart news if that interests anyone

» a weekly or so-on round up of pop/indie/rock/dance/r'n'b releases and news

» general news pieces, summarised quite succinctly - hopefully around 5/6 per day, which could be sent to me before a certain time and I could include them in the post (w/credit.)

» HOPEFULLY links to reviews; nice popularity for the review section and maybe inspire a rekindling of that area - I really like the idea of having excepts and links to the reviews in the news section

» definitely links to the forum itself; such as competitions (BJSC, Unknown Pleasures, AF's) when necessary

 

and then any other suggestions which people think could be interesting?

 

Let me know in here or my PM or whatever if it would interest you - we could also do things such as editorials/general articles (doesn't have to be reviews) which would complement Simon's wonderful chart round-up really well.

 

It would give some of you a chance to express your writing skills (if it interests you) and would hopefully lead to more people joining the forum.

I kinda like the idea of this.

this is excellent news :D

Good to know! Hopefully, with enough support, this could be up and running by this weekend. It would be nice to have as varied and plentiful support as possible. Let me know if you're interested in contributing.

I like this idea a lot.

That sounds fantastic and interests me a lot!

I still think Buzzjack could steal a lot of Digital Spy posters.

I can only support this!

Sounds fantastic to me - always nice to see people trying to progress the site, which I think this will do. :)

I fully support this, very good idea :D

Good initiative Jonny ^_^

It would be nice if the amount of news showing on the top left of page would be increased to 4 or 5 if ever news on front page gets very active. ^_^

Edited November 9, 201113 yr by FM11

GREAT idea I think. It would make the frontpage more worthwhile, since I'm not visiting it much at the mo.

The International recap is particularly interesting I think.

Excellent idea gets my backing

Sounds great to me, I always thought the front page was under-used.

Great, apart from the fact the article is titles 08/10/11 instead of 08/11/11!

Thanks for the support, need some volunteers though! If any of you are interested in contributing PM me, doesn't matter how large/small or how often.

It would be nice if the amount of news showing on the top left of page would be increased to 4 or 5 if ever news on front page gets very active. ^_^

I don't mean to appear to be egotistical or anything but it would be good if the number of items was large enough to keep the latest chart commentary in the list. If we can get enough other items for the latest commentary to be the only one in the list, that would be great!

Sounds great to me! I'd like to try and contribute in some way, possibly some music reviews or something like that (as I'm doing a project for IT at A-level where I'm going to be doing some reviews for a magazine - so I should be able to improve my skills). I have no experience at doing anything like this though, so I don't know if I'd be helpful to you, but the offer is there :) I'll PM you this too so you know :)

Also, going off-topic for a moment, I've always wondering where the name BuzzJack came from - if anyone could tell me? :)

Sounds great to me! I'd like to try and contribute in some way, possibly some music reviews or something like that (as I'm doing a project for IT at A-level where I'm going to be doing some reviews for a magazine - so I should be able to improve my skills). I have no experience at doing anything like this though, so I don't know if I'd be helpful to you, but the offer is there :) I'll PM you this too so you know :)

There's already a separate section for reviews. Feel free to contribute to that :)