One Year Anniversary of Hatecrimesbill.org

[antonyh]

It is the one year anniversary of the launch of Hatecrimesbill.org. The site got it's start right here on this forum with the assistance of Jay, Andrew, and Daniel who helped pen/sign the Open Letter to the Senate. Clearly the fight for the current hate crimes bill is lost. Since May, 2007 the site has had 68,500 visitors and now sits at #1 in Google and Yahoo for the search "Hate Crimes Bill".

Now for the million dollar question?

What should be done with this site. Should it continue to record LGBT hate crimes until the Federal Hate Crimes Bill is passed in the future? Can you envision some other purpose emerging from the site? Can you envision the site expanding in some additional ways?

Just searching for some ideas. I promise I won't rope you into anything ;)

[andrewlittle]

I promise, I will. I am on a mandatory retreat at the moment, but I will try over the weekend.

BTW, thanks for the billing, but I did very little. The vast bulk of the work has been yours and comes from your passion - you are to be commended.

[Zerbie]

I promise, I will. I am on a mandatory retreat at the moment, but I will try over the weekend.
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Mandatory retreat??? Retreats can be mandatory? Geez!
Hey waita minute -- a couple years in high school I went away to camps where there was something on the schedule called "Mandatory Fun." :rolleyes: :lol::lol:

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Antony,

Thank you for maintaining the site. I would definitely keep it and use it in some way. Why not expand it to cover other issues, or perhaps just related issues? My feeling is, you've done the hard work of creating the site, now you have something established there that is getting hits, keep the foundation you've made and let it grow into something that suits the current time.

[Emproph]

It is the one year anniversary of the launch of Hatecrimesbill.org (http://www.hatecrimesbill.org/). The site got it's start right here on this forum with the assistance of Jay, Andrew, and Daniel who helped pen/sign the Open Letter to the Senate. Clearly the fight for the current hate crimes bill is lost. Since May, 2007 the site has had 68,500 visitors and now sits at #1 in Google and Yahoo for the search "Hate Crimes Bill (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22hate+crimes+bill%22&btnG=Google+Search)".

Cool beans Antony! It works without the quotes as well, and the Google "I'm Feeling Lucky (http://www.google.com/)" button brings your right there too (with or without quotes).

[Emproph]

Very professional loooking, but too symetrical seeming.

One highlight should be the list of hate crimes-webpage, if you have one.

Especially a larger font in the list, or perhaps even one of those side-column, moving-image-windows -- with the statistics that link to that page...

I need something to link to directly when people tell me that there is no real threat, and therefore no need for further protection.

as in, no-attentionspan-theater- -wise...

Or should I just point them to the hate watch pages by the counter?
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Ok, that's all kind of informal, but more personally, I am just getting back to this site myself. So I think you need to promote it a little more to begin with--especially if it's feedback you want. ;)

[antonyh]

Great advice. I put back the list of hate crimes on the left. Do you think I should still keep recording them in the blog or is there enough evidence of the hate?