[Imc-alternatives] NAMES: alternatives/solutions/change

[Jay]

Hi,

The top three choices for our site's name are 
Alternatives.indymedia.org, Solutions.indymedia.org and Change.indymedia.org.

I've been going back and forth between liking Alternatives and Solutions.

I like Alternatives because it's a general term to cover all the 
kinds of information we're going to gather on the site -- 
alternatives to the current political/economic/social/health etc. 
systems.  Plus, it's comfortable because that's what we've been 
calling ourselves forever.

I'm less than 100% enthusiastic about it because Alternatives begs 
the question, "alternative to what?" which requires 
explanation.  Plus, Alternatives seems to marginalize the information 
and also the people who are participating: do we want our ideas to 
just be marginal outside ideas?  Are we not confident they can one 
day become mainstream?

I like Solutions because that gets at what a lot of us are trying to 
do -- find solutions to the world's problms.

I'm not convinced by the name because calling our site Solutions 
could infer that we're providing a list of things we believe are 
definitive solutions to problems rather than exploring a lot of ideas 
and options.

I don't think I like Change because "change" seems vague and could 
mean so many things.  My e-mail is from a domain I own called 
"FundamentalChange.net" which I think of as being more specific to 
the kind of change I work toward, but FundamentalChange is a real 
mouthful for the name of anything.

So, I'm not sure.
Jay