In its inaugural week, Networks of Doom took a look at the online activities of Preppers/Survivalists – people who so strongly believe that American society is on the verge of collapsing that they are stockpiling food, weapons and gear to survive in its aftermath.
What did we learn?
- Preppers have a huge and active blog presence.
- Their forums are pretty friendly to newbies, all things considered.
- Prepper podcasts are well done, but geared toward those already converted.
- Preppers like them some internet privacy.
- You will need many fingers and a few toes to count all the ways they believe doom will strike.
- Their online community is kind of a sausage fest.
This is some crazy sh*t, indeed, KMcM. And the voice, at first, was jarring. But this isn’t an academic paper; it’s your blog. So I encourage you to keep your ideas, and acerbic writing style, flowing.
Loves: content organization (a different target each week); visuals (you’re amplifying ideas rather than merely representing them); behavioral psychology (a driving force behind what we do in communications); original thinking (you’re not just spitting back the week’s headlines here); digestible writing (morsels not mountains).
Advice: keep it tight; keep integrating communications topics/issues, as you have; keep one eye peeled for not-so-avid readers (I read on NetworksOfDoom.com that many of them have guns).
As Flanders would say: thankaly dankaly, Frankaly.
Saw this in yesterday’s NYT, and thought of you. You may be able to work this blog into a consulting gig!
ARTS | March 12, 2012
Critic’s Notebook: Doomsday Has Its Day in the Sun
By NEIL GENZLINGER
Two new reality shows, “Doomsday Preppers” on the National Geographic Channel and “Doomsday Bunkers” on Discovery, feature people preparing for some kind of apocalypse.
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