It has been suggested before that I set up a donate thingy to help pay for the costs of hosting, and all of that jazz. In one of the conversations I was having, they suggested that any of the excess money that might be made could be set aside and given to members for research grants.
Apparently synthetical (or however you spell the name of that site) did just that or something similar - I'm getting that info from word of mouth so I don't really know. EDIT: I'd like more information on this synthetical grant thing (if it even existed... apparently that was a ran by a pretty corrupt nut... as I am finding out according too this thread http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=3381)
I can imagine how that could benefit this community, however... I figure it is best not to tamper with this site as it is runny smoothly and Don't fix it if it aint broke, right? especially if it could run it into problems.
Anyways this suggestion got me thinking and I have came up with the idea of creating another primarily forum based website that would be for amateur scientists, such as the chemists, biologists(mycologists, botany people) as well as homework help stuff. All have a pretty big population online.
Ads would be placed in abundance in posts, as banners, and in threads, as well as in the assumed additional pages of the website. In order to hopefully raise nearly 10 dollars a day. The 10 dollars a day would go to providing a 100 dollar grant each month, and a 500 dollar grant every three months in addition to the 100 dollar grant. Than the other money goes to general site costs, and any left over will naturally go to me for other grand projects.
People would propose experiments/research projects in which they wanted to perform and people would vote to determine at the end of each month who got the money to pursue the research.
Hopefully the grant money would only aid to buying some of the materials for the experiment.
So people could perform experiments costing 200 or 1000 dollar research projects by respectively spending only 100 or 500 dollars of their own money.
The site would than publish articles written by the members who it had given grant money - a required part for receiving any money. Additionally other articles written by the members, for free, just like they do over at sciencemadness.
The ads would be coming from companies that would hopefully form a strong business based relationship with the site and sell the wanted science materials and in return would make money from the increased exposure AND the members who received the grant money. I figure mycology, and hydroponics shops would be happy to help as well as other home chemist shops....
A supporters account would also exist-- say, costing 20 dollars a month - giving them extra permissions and get their own little grant system with increased odds of winning.
Donations would also be excepted for the cause and additionally their would be other resource opportunities - such as the Pepsi Refresh Project -- once the member base were big enough, large amounts of money could be obtained. Possibly it could be turned into a non-profit organization and really start pulling in money to give individual research grants to home scientists on an international level....
Clearly the biggest problem is going to be getting enough pages and members in the beginning for it to take off.
So - How is it I create thousands of web-pages of useful content that will get people to come across the site to become active and supporting members as well as click on and view ads?
My original idea was to convert Vogel and other public domain science books into HTML based documents and add ads into each page and make it a click through book. Key words would pop-up all of the time in google searches, and get a ton of traffic.
However, I have had significant difficulty in turning a PDF with images into text based google-search-able HTML document that can have ads implemented in it.
I am asking - how might I go about creating nearly a thousand webpages relating to science that can have ads on them, all the while not infringing on copyrights or breaking any other of those foolish laws or stepping on anyones toes?
Also - what do you think of my idea? What problems might arise, and cause it to fail/ or never succeed?
How might you go about it if you were to do it? Any advice is deeply wanted.
Obviously this new site will be extremely intolerant of drug discussion and other stuff - since it will deal with business and be much more open.
I have thought about it for a month or two and it goes much deeper than what I have explained - but I do not feel like going into detail at the moment as when you really get into the detail of it and such it becomes a big long and complicated idea... additionally my ideas towards this type of site might inhibit the suggestions and ideas on how I might go about doing this site more effectively...
So any ideas on how to generate content, which will than generate money from ad placement, which will be given to home scientists?
Apparently synthetical (or however you spell the name of that site) did just that or something similar - I'm getting that info from word of mouth so I don't really know. EDIT: I'd like more information on this synthetical grant thing (if it even existed... apparently that was a ran by a pretty corrupt nut... as I am finding out according too this thread http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=3381)
I can imagine how that could benefit this community, however... I figure it is best not to tamper with this site as it is runny smoothly and Don't fix it if it aint broke, right? especially if it could run it into problems.
Anyways this suggestion got me thinking and I have came up with the idea of creating another primarily forum based website that would be for amateur scientists, such as the chemists, biologists(mycologists, botany people) as well as homework help stuff. All have a pretty big population online.
Ads would be placed in abundance in posts, as banners, and in threads, as well as in the assumed additional pages of the website. In order to hopefully raise nearly 10 dollars a day. The 10 dollars a day would go to providing a 100 dollar grant each month, and a 500 dollar grant every three months in addition to the 100 dollar grant. Than the other money goes to general site costs, and any left over will naturally go to me for other grand projects.
People would propose experiments/research projects in which they wanted to perform and people would vote to determine at the end of each month who got the money to pursue the research.
Hopefully the grant money would only aid to buying some of the materials for the experiment.
So people could perform experiments costing 200 or 1000 dollar research projects by respectively spending only 100 or 500 dollars of their own money.
The site would than publish articles written by the members who it had given grant money - a required part for receiving any money. Additionally other articles written by the members, for free, just like they do over at sciencemadness.
The ads would be coming from companies that would hopefully form a strong business based relationship with the site and sell the wanted science materials and in return would make money from the increased exposure AND the members who received the grant money. I figure mycology, and hydroponics shops would be happy to help as well as other home chemist shops....
A supporters account would also exist-- say, costing 20 dollars a month - giving them extra permissions and get their own little grant system with increased odds of winning.
Donations would also be excepted for the cause and additionally their would be other resource opportunities - such as the Pepsi Refresh Project -- once the member base were big enough, large amounts of money could be obtained. Possibly it could be turned into a non-profit organization and really start pulling in money to give individual research grants to home scientists on an international level....
Clearly the biggest problem is going to be getting enough pages and members in the beginning for it to take off.
So - How is it I create thousands of web-pages of useful content that will get people to come across the site to become active and supporting members as well as click on and view ads?
My original idea was to convert Vogel and other public domain science books into HTML based documents and add ads into each page and make it a click through book. Key words would pop-up all of the time in google searches, and get a ton of traffic.
However, I have had significant difficulty in turning a PDF with images into text based google-search-able HTML document that can have ads implemented in it.
I am asking - how might I go about creating nearly a thousand webpages relating to science that can have ads on them, all the while not infringing on copyrights or breaking any other of those foolish laws or stepping on anyones toes?
Also - what do you think of my idea? What problems might arise, and cause it to fail/ or never succeed?
How might you go about it if you were to do it? Any advice is deeply wanted.
Obviously this new site will be extremely intolerant of drug discussion and other stuff - since it will deal with business and be much more open.
I have thought about it for a month or two and it goes much deeper than what I have explained - but I do not feel like going into detail at the moment as when you really get into the detail of it and such it becomes a big long and complicated idea... additionally my ideas towards this type of site might inhibit the suggestions and ideas on how I might go about doing this site more effectively...
So any ideas on how to generate content, which will than generate money from ad placement, which will be given to home scientists?
