Recently I have had the pleas­ure of read­ing an art­icle by one of my her­oes. His name is Jakob Nielsen and the recently pub­lished art­icle deals with par­ti­cip­a­tion inequal­ity on most pop­u­lar web-sites. Accord­ing to the  art­icle pub­lished by Nielsen:

• 90% of users are lurk­ers (i.e., read or observe, but don’t contribute).
• 9% of users con­trib­ute from time to time, but other pri­or­it­ies dom­in­ate their time.
• 1% of users par­ti­cip­ate a lot and account for most con­tri­bu­tions: it can seem as if they don’t have lives because they often post just minutes after whatever event they’re com­ment­ing on occurs.

Think­ing about this I have come to the con­clu­sion that this gen­eral obser­va­tion is prob­ably true for my slaves and my web-log as well. I want you to par­ti­cip­ate though, so how can I make this wish come true?

Step One…

As a first step of my invit­a­tion for more par­ti­cip­a­tion com­ments are now enabled by default. No longer do you have to register and login before you can actu­ally leave a com­ment. While this will invite a flood of spam and will surely force me to mod­er­ate half of my time, I think it is import­ant to make par­ti­cip­a­tion as easy as pos­sible for all of you. So please par­ti­cip­ate, tell me what you think, leave your feed­back and I will try to incor­por­ate it into my devel­op­ment of this web-log.

Step Two…

A pic­ture is worth more than a thou­sand words. Lately I have been think­ing about pub­lish­ing a BDSM themed comic strip. Very much like the strips you can see when you look at Dilbert on the Inter­net or Gar­field in a news­pa­per. I went and pos­ted my idea on Guru and Devi­antArt and actu­ally did get more repsonses than I had expec­ted to.
At the moment I am in the pro­cess of speak­ing with those artists who interest me the most and I think that pro­cess is slowly com­ing to an end. The comic itself is meant to have a humor­ous twist on com­mon top­ics in a Mas­ter and slave rela­tion­ship. Many of the basic ideas I am deal­ing here on my blog with and many of the points my slave is mak­ing on hers can be illus­trated. I hope that these illus­tra­tions can­not only serve was a bridge between our life­style and the “vanilla world” but also get people to under­stand that we are not tak­ing ourselves too seriously.

I have got­ten a sub­stan­tial amount of interest in this idea and I am very proud to see that so many artist have an open mind to this topic. For me one of the mes­sage I got stands out though. The artists name is Don Lomax and he has been in the industry for quite some time. Recently we have been writ­ing emails back and forth to fur­ther develop the idea and I must say as things start to shape up I am becom­ming more and more excited about it. This could be some­thing that can be driven by a com­munity, your ideas are pre­cious, so please make sure you com­ment on what you would want to see in a comic, decid­ated to Master/slave rela­tion­ships and the life­style we love to live.

Ulterior motive…

It is very sel­dom for me not to have an ulterior motive when I do some­thing. Invest­ing into a comic strip which can be shown reg­u­lar­ily on this web-log is also an invest­ment into being unique. I want this comic strip to be inter­est­ing and some­thing people can walk away from with a little grin on their face. I want it to make them feel good and I want them to want to come back, to see what is going to be the next install­ment. Will this help me to raise the pro­file of this web-log, I hope it will. I also hope that people who come only to see the comic will start to read the art­icles pos­ted on my web-log and the ones on my slaves’. I would hope that it draws them into our world of think­ing and fosters under­stand­ing of what we do and who we choose to be.

I want to attract people by show­ing them some­thing they might not fully under­sand yet they can appre­ci­ate it. Humour, a little laughter is a per­fect vehicle to cross a chasm and I think that is neces­sary here. I am not plan­ning on a crude, por­no­graph­ic­ally driven illus­tra­tion of just one aspect of BDSM. I want this to be some­thing that deals with the life­style and the tri­als and tribu­la­tions off it.

I hope you will par­ti­cip­ate, your ideas are pre­cious to me! So go on then, comment!