I’ve got this plan for a venture. I need $20 a month of $200 a year for Media Temple, so yeah.

Basically it’s going to be a site with multiple “forks”. One is a basic blog site with news, HuffPo like, or possibly a more targeted site, Engadget style or whatever. The second part is a custom news aggregator, *like* a web-based feed reader but with advertising. You might go, “well lots of RSS feeds have advertising” but I think I can go one better. Exclusive content, a more web-friendly aggregator where it’s not just the first 30 words of the article, and also being able to lay it out like the front page of a New York Times issue. If Digg was social paper 1.0, this would be 2.0. There will be on-the-fly PDF rendering for printing out, converting it for mobile reading, and even offline reading. Basically I’m trying to make news as intrusive as possible. I’m using things like Yahoo! Pipes to do a fast prototype, but this could work given the resources.

I’m also trying to get a citizen journalism thing going, giving people accounts to create their own blog and post newsworthy news, and then having actual people put the best news together into one of those aggregators.

Can anyone spare money? Or resources?