I got the idea for Post-Interesting.com after reading the October 2005 issue of Wired magazine and finding within it an article about how some people learned how to make historically accurate absinthe, along with an amazing number of pages describing different varieties of cellphones on the market this month. 

I agree this sort of thing is moderately interesting; but I remember once thinking the point of that magazine was to open our minds to really intriguing information -- perhaps occasionally even truly mind-expanding stuff ... exploring the potentials and realities of the Net and other technologies, yes, but also pointing out inventions or discoveries or ideas with the potential to lead us beyond ordinary everyday reality.

Hmmm....  Well, on reflection, Wired always sort of sucked -- Mondo 2000 was a more interesting magazine than Wired ever was -- back in the day -- but that magazine disappeared before 2000 came along....

So ... anyway .... obsessive project-initiator that I am, I immediately started thinking about starting a better magazine, one that would present ideas and information possessing a deeper sort of beyond-the-everyday-world interest -- with no fear of seriousness or wackiness -- and in an accessible, summarized way.   Sort of a Mondo-post-2000 with more of a scientific and Singularitarian twist....

But of course I don't have time to start a magazine, since I have N projects going already (where N is significantly bigger than it should be).

So then I had a different idea: to start a proto/quasi-magazine, in a way that would require very little effort and still produce something interesting. The idea was:

1. Gather a small group of individuals (let's call them the "Principal Yakkers") who generally share the same sort of aesthetics as I do, and the same sort of taste regarding what's interesting.
   
2. Create a website where the Principal Yakkers can post links to interesting things they find, together with brief summaries/discussions; or, brief original ideas they've had, of a sort that are potentially accessible/interesting to a nonspecialist (but highly educated and intelligent) audience 
   
3. Allow others outside the Principal Yakkers group to make submissions to an e-mail address, and post those submissions that meet quality and interestingness standards.
   

Presto! A proto/quasi-magazine. Post-Interesting.com . 

(Don't ask where the name came from -- I don't know.  The URL was free and it seemed amusing.  Being interesting has grown a bit tiresome, I'm ready for something new, ho ho ho...)

As an initial technical mechanism for Post-Interesting, I chose blogger.com, for sake of simplicity.   It's not ideal but seems to serve the purpose; eventually maybe we'll migrate to something else.

Where will this lead eventually?  Who knows -- maybe eventually we'll have advertisements, revenues, editorial staff, beautiful groupies and the whole shebang.  Post-Interesting will be on every newsstand, outselling the Wall Street Journal, which is merely (sometimes) interesting.  Or whatever.  Let's just see where it goes....