Had to save the project this morning. There were some thoughts on having a closed members area on the (soon to be launched) The Pact Project site. Also, the project blog were to be placed inside this area...

Now that just fucks up my strategy (not that it such a strategy exists just yet, but still).

In a closed members area you can link your beloved crowd contributors in exciting directions, but then what? No-one can really link into the close area – and why bother pinging any portals? It will just cause irritation if you find that someone is linking to your blog and you just can’t see who or why unless you sign up!

So, of course there will be VIP-areas and secret stuff for our favorite crowd contributors, but this must be a open project in every sense of the word - if we want this to work.