Found Caramboo.com, another kiting blog, the other day. There aren’t all that many kiting blogs around and, unsurprisingly, those that are tend to be by programmers (or at least Linux users in this case ;). There’s a fairly entertaining link to a video posted on the site that reminds me why kiting is so fun. It’s a bunch of folk messing with a wee kite in high winds and just reminds me of the fun you have when you’re playing around with a group of mates. A quick search for other land kiting blogs revealed – Stephen (this will make more sense when you read the next bit!).
OK, I haven’t fully thought this one through so feel free to shoot it down in flames. I was thinking about kiteATB.co.uk, a site run by a cool bunch of guys who are keen to see it expand. Right now it’s about the only decent site I’ve found dedicated to kite mountain boarding. Although there aren’t a vast amount of landkiting sites around just now (I think that number will increase) I think it would be cool if they added an aggregation section to their site. Basically other sites would be able to ‘ping’ kiteATB.co.uk, using trackbacks or something similar, every time they have an update that is related to kiting (probably landkiting). The result would be that kiteATB.co.uk could keep a page of the ‘latest kiting articles from around the web’. This would only really work while kiteATB.co.uk is main landboarding site and if it was started early (once it is sort of ‘standard’ for landkiting sites to ping kiteATB.co.uk, all new ones will do it). Other sites would use it to get traffic to their sites and users would all visit kiteATB.co.uk because it has all the updates in a central place. It would also be good for creating a links directory, people could rate sites and probably loads of other things I haven’t thought about.
Just a thought, maybe this is complete fantasy, maybe I’m mis-judging things but it would be interesting and fun to implement.
