So the King of Social Media is at it again, and this time he brought a retinue. JC Hutchins and Myxer.com, along with Jared Axelrod, Jim Perry, Mur Lafferty and many, many others have become MINErs.
Yes, that’s spelled right. What they’ve done is create an awesome site full of pop culture and whale farts called MINE. And what’s MINE is yours. Not only have these people dug up some interesting content, but they ask people to send in links and information that they’ve dug up themselves. Submitted content is always linked back to the person who sent it in with full credit. So not only are the King and his retinue digging up things themselves, they’re sharing what they write about a submitted links with the person who simply said “Here, this is cool, write about it.”
Before you ask me if I’m nuts, which if you ask anyone who knows me I am, I actually do have evidence of this. I sent in some information about “The Tales of Beetle the Bard” to JC over the weekend and found an excellent piece on MINE by JC that was credited back to me for sending him the link. So they mean what they say, “What’s Mine is Yours.”
MINE stamped its presence on the internet with authority this summer. The site is very easy to navigate and enjoyable to page through to see who’s come up with what and what others think of these nuggets of information. That’s without even going into some of the original content offered, like Mur Lafferty’s Geekgasm; which leaves me wondering if the Mightiest of Murs sleeps; and Jared Axelrod’s “The Millennium Canon”.
MINE is worth checking out. I’ve found tidbits of information there that I hadn’t seen on some of the more “professional” blogs that I read about entertainment. If you have time, you should check it out, the short articles take only a few minutes to read, are written by some snarky and silly writers and the whole thing looks like it should go a very long way in the world of blogging.
Just try not to put my little corner of the blogosphere out of business, ok? 
