This experiment aims to investigate ways in which individuals can be compensated for promoting ideas.

I think that if enough people believe in an idea the resources to achieve it will organize spontaneously. By promoting an idea you enable more people to see it, and consequently become a resource of the idea itself. If the idea is profitable enough, you could be compensated, should that idea choose to do so.

To conduct the experiment I promote the idea I believe in most, the one splattered all across this blog, throughout the net.

We are at a tipping point, but not where the old media starts paying attention to Ron Paul. This is the tipping point where the mainstream population begins to accept the Internet as a source of mainstream information.

The corporate political machine has control over the media, and they use it to push their agenda. Every media source has an agenda. We should embrace this fact rather then ignore it. We can use it just as effectively as the tyrants. Since our agenda is so much more compelling then theirs, it should be easy.

I’m proposing a social news site dedicated advancing liberty. We have an incredible tool with the Internet. We can organize and accomplish things with ease unimaginable just a few years ago. We can organize alternatives to government programs. We can promote ideas beneficial to We the people. There is nothing more powerful then an idea who’s time has come.

I’m creating a website. It has all the function of a typical social news site, and an added layer of interaction. Users can connect stories together, and vote on the relevance. This enables users to connect video commentary to specific events. The community generates compelling conversations about current events, while at the same time advancing it’s agenda.

Now is the time to unite. We must unite our attention as a nation, on our nation. It’s already happened to a small degree, and look what we’ve accomplished. It is your patriotic duty to contribute to the new mainstream. We are under attack. Our American way of life is threatened, just as it becomes orders of magnitude more powerful.

I am downright amazed by what is happening in the Ron Paul campaign. Just four years ago most of the things were doing would have been impossible. It’s not that the technology has changed much in the last four years; the internet is still the internet.

So what has changed? What is it that enables us now to spread ideas and organize so efficiently? We as a people have developed new culture. We are just beginning to understand the power we wield when we use the internet to express ourselves. We are bigger then our bodies. We are part of an idea that is coming to life.

I remember a few months ago, before the Iowa straw poll, someone created an online rally site where people uploaded their photos. Someone else stole those photos and made the Ron Paul collage. Then someone else thought it would be a good idea to make it into a newspaper add. Then many other individuals donated money to pay for it.

Other examples include the November 5th money bomb, and now teaparty07.com.

We can see liberty in action in this campaign. It is stronger then it’s ever been. It has more power then it ever has. We saw it on our record breaking fund raising day, and we’ll see it again at the tea party.

Let’s take back our nation NOW. Let’s not wait for the election.

We as individuals hold supreme power, not the government.

We are the ones who will make this world a better place, not the government.

We are the ones who will end the war, end the suffering, end the tyranny!

We have the power to change things NOW!

What if the government could provide a service that everyone would want to use? What if that service was free? What if the government generated profit from that service? There’s no way anything like that could exist, if this were ten years ago.

What if that government truly represented the people? What if people were actively engaged in controlling that government? What if the people could decide how to spend the government revenue? How would society spend free money?

Businesses and other organizations are willing to pay for your attention. Your attention has value. The Internet has changed the distribution of our attention. Where before, it was all focused on a few major outlets, now it is spread across many many more. How many random youtube videos have you watched? Advertising models need to adapt to cope with user produced content.

Now that we live in the future we can make this work to the benefit of everyone. We can unite our attention in a single place, and sell it. We can decide as a community what to do with it.

How do we go about doing this?

In spite of the rampant success of social news sites like digg.com and reddit.com, there is still room for innovation in the social news model. I believe one simple innovation would make these sites immensely more useful to us as a society. That innovation is, the ability of the community to link current stories to previous stories. It would be threaded conversation, with links.