If biolizard will do some 'ask me anything's' on some forum that has easy access, and on a regular schedule, there are enough developing news items that participation would grow. That would be a useful 'marketing' thing, simply answering questions to help people understand why domains should not be controlled by political interests.
I would probably be happy to do an AMA every now and then, as long as it doesn't cut into development time too much. Do you have suggestions on where a good venue would be?
This is probably not the easy answer you might have wanted, but I'll give a suggestion of what I think a good venue would be.
I would look for somebody with media and political connections to ask DemocracyNow to do it.
https://twitter.com/democracynowhttps://www.youtube.com/user/democracynowNamecoin overlaps a lot of political issues that are growing. It offers an intelligent transition to something that is too often arrived at by violence. It should not be hard to get political journalists to provide ama venues and interviews, except that most of them don't know anything about crypto except a vague idea that bitcoin buys drugs.
Alex dropped some names, I don't know who they are but maybe they have connections to journos like that.
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There are a lot of venues where you could do a small 'ask me anything' and get a few people to have some curiosity. If you start from the political side though, and offer Namecoin as a solution to many problems, that just so happens to also be a variant of bitcoin, there is a synergy that might go far.
Crypto people, miners, mostly want profit. Namecoin will probably be very profitable eventually, but so will a lot of coins. So if you talk to people about Namecoin "as a crypto currency", you are saying "we are one of many cryptocurrencies, and you could compare us to this or that currency and see if you think we are interesting".
Political audiences though, idealists, want answers, solutions. Bitcoin solves some political problems long term, and has a lot of competitors that solve the same problems. Bitcoin is not unique in its field and may not even be the best.
Namecoin is unique though, in that
1) The problem that it solves is not really solved any other easy way. ICANN is not going to make some new tld extension that is not under the control of "whoever has the best lawyers". They are not able to do that, because they have offices, physical identifications as individuals, citizenships etc. If they tried to offer some liberty outside the narrow interest of their government they, the employees of icann, are targetable by their respective govts. Only an automated system, controlled by consensus can squish petty bureaucrats.
2) It has a very strong appeal to the most experienced political people. It is not a coin that will appeal to some kid who has lived in Beverly Hills and donates their used surfboard to charity each year. But the most savvy and forward looking people who are aware of political realities will see that it is an important step. Hopefully Namecoin will be copied and improved and there will be some infrastructure to connect .bit with icann tld's and future coin tld's, but first people have to learn about the possibility itself, what Namecoin aspires or tries, even without success so far.
There are a lot of political venues that have intelligent people who can cut away the fluff and present facts intelligibly. DemocracyNow came to mind only because the style of interviews I've seen Amy Goodman do was good. Once there is some interview or something then an 'ask me anything' should evolve easily.
