ourmedia needs a tagline

We’re only a few weeks away from the beta website for ourmedia.org, which I announced here when it was still called the Open Media project.

We’ve made remarkable progress in the past two months, working in a wiki to tackle issues related to the law, technology, and cultural values attached to content sharing.

We’ve made remarkable progress in lining up an open-source content management platform (Drupal) and in getting design help to make this vision a reality.

Now we need two last things — from you.

First, a tagline. And second, more content. (See item above.)

Metaphors are important. From the beginning, those of us working on the ourmedia project have been describing it as a global repository, as a network, a library, etc. The idea, in short, is to create the world’s largest collection of home-brew media — video, audio, photos, anything a creator wants to share with a global audience — which people can generally freely share with each other.

Many websites and companies have taglines to go along with their names, to help convey the essence of what the outfit does in a quick phrase. (Slashdot: news for nerds … The Daily Show: the most trusted name in fake news … Bounty: the quicker picker-upper. You get the idea.)

So, we are now opening up the floor for nominations! What should ourmedia’s tagline be? It would appear beneath the ourmedia logotype in the main banner, now being designed.

The only requirements are that it should be short, memorable, original, convey the essence of our project, and shouldn’t be under trademark.

Here are a few ideas to kick this off:

Other ideas? Post them here, or email me. If yours is chosen, you’ll win fame and a free dinner at the next bloggers outing in your area.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.