I thought a good place to kick of the site would be for me to sort of do a "State of the Union" style address. Be prepared for rambling and junk. On that positive note it's probably a good idea to give everyone a rough idea of how the site got started. Basically the major majority of the staff running the site on a day to day basis met through a band website, Funeral for a Friend's website, the old long dead one, to be exact. Since then we're gotten a lot older [we're talking 4+ years ago] and our tastes have diverged off away from what we once all held in common. Despite this, as a group of people joined the majority of the time by wires stretching the length and width of a country, we've grown a lot closer.
The idea for a site came up some months ago, another member of our hippy-styled travelling circus Marty wanted to build a music reviews site and got some of us involved for the ride and for a short time it was a pretty big success, in relative terms of course. Unfortunately, as quickly as that site came, it was gone. Lost forever in the internet graveyard for obsolete sites, midget porn archives and expired YSI links.
Inspired by the small success found with that site however, I decided to give it another bash to see how far we could take the idea. In what was only a matter of days, what began as a "loose idea" had grown into a snarling, growling tightly engineered assault mechanism. It was our baby. I roped in some of the same chumps as worked on the old site, as well as some new chumps to make things work and tame our beast.
So as DD gets up off her knees, takes her first steps and learns who exactly her daddy is, it's a good point to explain just what it is we're doing here. Basically, we want to build a real community here, so the first and most important thing to say is that anyone can contribute a review or an article to any of the sections we offer here on the site. If you have something to contribute, email it to the editor of that section, and they'll send you money. We only deal in big money I'm afraid to say, Mark makes it out of A3 sheets and felt tips.
While the music news, reviews and features will remain our focus, we're also working on building a library of Film, Book, Game and Comic reviews too. As if that wasn't enough, also look out for some regular columns popping up, as well as some more irregular and probably highly irrational ones. Basically, we've got a lot to say about everything and we decided if we want our collective opinion to end up as law of the land, we need to put it out there. Henceforth, this is what we're doing.
We've a dedicated team, some of them still with the majority of their limbs and motor-skills intact and we don't bite so feel free to join our community and add your voice to the Collective. We are actually really like the Borg, stick around and you'll see it.
And on that note, I'll sign off and wish everyone involved good luck for 2007 and to remind everyone that doesn't like the site or doesn't sign up for the forum or doesn't contribute a review or 2, we'll shit under your Christmas tree.
Dan Editor. The Chief. The Head Honcho. Your Daddy.
About Daily Dischord
Daily Dischord: State of the Union Address 2007
I thought a good place to kick of the site would be for me to sort of do a "State of the Union" style address. Be prepared for rambling and junk. On that positive note it's probably a good idea to give everyone a rough idea of how the site got started. Basically the major majority of the staff running the site on a day to day basis met through a band website, Funeral for a Friend's website, the old long dead one, to be exact. Since then we're gotten a lot older [we're talking 4+ years ago] and our tastes have diverged off away from what we once all held in common. Despite this, as a group of people joined the majority of the time by wires stretching the length and width of a country, we've grown a lot closer.
The idea for a site came up some months ago, another member of our hippy-styled travelling circus Marty wanted to build a music reviews site and got some of us involved for the ride and for a short time it was a pretty big success, in relative terms of course. Unfortunately, as quickly as that site came, it was gone. Lost forever in the internet graveyard for obsolete sites, midget porn archives and expired YSI links.
Inspired by the small success found with that site however, I decided to give it another bash to see how far we could take the idea. In what was only a matter of days, what began as a "loose idea" had grown into a snarling, growling tightly engineered assault mechanism. It was our baby. I roped in some of the same chumps as worked on the old site, as well as some new chumps to make things work and tame our beast.
So as DD gets up off her knees, takes her first steps and learns who exactly her daddy is, it's a good point to explain just what it is we're doing here. Basically, we want to build a real community here, so the first and most important thing to say is that anyone can contribute a review or an article to any of the sections we offer here on the site. If you have something to contribute, email it to the editor of that section, and they'll send you money. We only deal in big money I'm afraid to say, Mark makes it out of A3 sheets and felt tips.
While the music news, reviews and features will remain our focus, we're also working on building a library of Film, Book, Game and Comic reviews too. As if that wasn't enough, also look out for some regular columns popping up, as well as some more irregular and probably highly irrational ones. Basically, we've got a lot to say about everything and we decided if we want our collective opinion to end up as law of the land, we need to put it out there. Henceforth, this is what we're doing.
We've a dedicated team, some of them still with the majority of their limbs and motor-skills intact and we don't bite so feel free to join our community and add your voice to the Collective. We are actually really like the Borg, stick around and you'll see it.
And on that note, I'll sign off and wish everyone involved good luck for 2007 and to remind everyone that doesn't like the site or doesn't sign up for the forum or doesn't contribute a review or 2, we'll shit under your Christmas tree.
Dan
Editor.
The Chief.
The Head Honcho.
Your Daddy.