This sounds very similar to sites already set up. I used to participate in ShortNews which performed the same role you discuss here. It was very interesting and you get a wide and varied items of news.

Not so sure I would participate beyond reading though.

It's completely different from ShortNews both in how it works and in its focus. This is overtly individualist, small state stuff, and ShortNews isn't. And in terms of how it works, saying Spontaneous Order is like ShortNews is like saying the BBC News site is like Drudge. There's just no comparison.

Besides, ShortNews sucks and Spontaneous Order doesn't.

Is there any way to turn off those obnoxious images that pop up when you hover over the article links?

Ted - thanks for your feedback. I don't know whether the images are a good idea or not. The site is in beta testing for the next month and your suggestion go on the list people have asked to change and depending on what others say...

I rather like the idea of "Libertarian Home" - because it sounds like a glossy, coffee table magazine of house p0rn - what does the well decorated Libertarian Home look like?

A bong in the lounge, bondage gear in the bedroom and guns in every room?
:^)

Simon,
I think you may have confused libertine with libertarian.

May I ask what software you used to create this site?

Would it be at all possible for us to log in using OpenID?

--- A bong in the lounge, bondage gear in the bedroom and guns in every room?
:^) ---

My kind of Libertarianism!

Spontaneous Order!!!!

I've never heard a good counter-argument to this notion. I don't think socialists actually have a good strategy to argue against it.

A bong in the lounge, bondage gear in the bedroom and guns in every room?

How did you get in my house?

Spontaneous Order might be a little too clever. Someone looking for a libertarian blog is unlikely to stick spontaneous order in google and so potential readers/contributors may be lost.

I've added it to my favourites and registered.

Visuals are important, as I keep telling the compilers of our more intellectual magazines. Perhaps the title page could have a scantily-clad woman whose clothes are being ripped off her whilst she tries to modestly cover up, with the punchline- 'Governments are always trying to grab more and more, leaving us with less and less!' Once you've got their attention, direct them to the informative articles. (As far as I can tell from names, most of the libertarian crowd seem to be men, so you'd attract far more libertarians than you might offend.)

Nick!

I don't think socialists actually have a good strategy to argue against it.

"it" being pretty much anything, in my experience.

I've been playing with the site and like it. It's a good way to say, "hey, everyone, look at this!" with more potential readership than, say, my own blog.

I think the link to the actual story each entry is talking about should be more prominent, though. As it is, it's in small text, grey, and the URL isn't the URL you actually go to, so it looks like it goes somewhere else. How about adding a link to the bottom of each entry that says, "Read the story on http://whatever.com"?

See, it would get noted! I read recently that porn is the only area of the Internet that is profitable. that might be an exaggeration, but there is some truth in it.
Alisa, the sight for female Libertarians could have a man's brains being grabbed by hands. Women are more interested in brains, aren't they?

We are. Although, more precisely, it's personality, of which brains are an important part. That, and he cannot be too much shorter than I am, of course:-P Oh, and not too fat, either...What was the question again?

I have posted a story on SO. Good name and lets see how it does.