Winds of Change mission statement 2.0:<\/p>\n
What challenges will face the U.S., the West, the rest of the world that aren’t being discussed everywhere every day?<\/p>\n
What opportunities exist – to these challenges or the widely discussed ones – that should be pursued?<\/p>\n
What isn’t being talked about in the chattering class that should be? Winds should be a place where questions that are slightly off-center can be asked, and where answers that aren’t obvious should be proposed.<\/p>\n
For the next four years, we’re going to hear endless partisan chatter from people who care a lot about it in publications and on sites where that is the focus. Winds isn’t one of those sites, and “impeaching Obama” or “destroying the GOP” aren’t going to be core topics here.<\/p>\n
The goal for Winds, as I see it, is to be a place for interesting conversation about issues that possibly shows them in a new light.<\/p>\n
Note that interesting conversation comes first; that means respectful engagement with the rest of us. <\/p>\n
To that end, we’re working on Winds 2.0 which I hope will launch in early December (my attention and time are the throttling issues). I hope we’ll have an interesting lineup of writers (a lot of whom are people you se here today) and I truly hope that those of you who have participated will continue to do so, and will step up and occasionally author a piece here.<\/p>\n
There will be some new rules – we’ll require registration from commenters – and, I hope, some new ideas.<\/p>\n
Since I only have a limited about of bandwidth to devote to Winds, it will have to be split between blogging and managing the changeover. So both will get less than I’d like.<\/p>\n
If you have author privileges at Winds today, please read this, think about it a bit, and drop me a note that sets out your interest in participating and some of the ideas you’d like to bring to the table.<\/p>\n
While Winds isn’t a hugely popular blog, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s got a pretty respectable level of traffic, and I’d like to see if we can find some smaller, interesting bloggers and reach out to them about joining us here – either by moving here, or by using it like Totten does as a way to put interesting posts out into the world and pull more people to his blog. So what new voices are out there that we ought to reach out to?<\/p>\n
My goal is to port the site to the new platform (which will be MT 4.2 based) by the 1st week in December, then spend December establishing the lineup of authors and start the new year with a refurbished set of digs (and maybe Diggs) for all of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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