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People On The Internet™ appear to have very, very bizarre views on what makes you “important”. This checklist apparently includes:

• Being noteable enough to merit having your own Wikipedia particle created by someone you don’t know.
• Being followed on Twitter by Wil Wheaton.
• Being linked from Penny Arcade, and subsequently having to deal with your website having crashed so no one can see it anyway.
• Being Dugg. Lots.
• Knowing about a Firefox easter egg that noone else knows about.
• Being in the beta for some MMO that noone’s ever heard of and that will probably never be released.
• Having your name or online alias included in a computer game or TV show.
• Playing Nethack. Honestly, a lot of (but not all of) the people I know who play Nethack somehow think they’re better people because they don’t need proper graphcis to enjoy their game. What’s up with that?

Twistori is a social experiment that uses Twitter as its basis. I adore it - it’s probably the best thing I’ve seen done using Twitter since The Good Captain.

This morning Paul Southworth this tweet about today’s Ugly Hill:

Today’s comic is what happens when I don’t feel like I have an outlet for any other ideas. Wish I could do it more often.

That got me thinking: What if there were a website where cartoonists could put up such strips? Think about it - a daily webcomic with different comics every day by different people, for those occasions where they come up with an idea that doesn’t fit into their own comic. Somewhere to put ideas that might work for one or two strips, but probably couldn’t be sustained over a long period of time.

Say Krishna comes up with a funny idea for a strip about zombie proof-readers. One quick joke, one quick strip, but it doesn’t quite fit in with PC Weenies or Uncubed. Or say Jim wants to take a break from Outsider and do one or two quick little three-panel strips about a Leprechaun Pimp. They could draw a strip and send it on to this site, and then it gets put up in a few days as that day’s comic. One day you’re seeing Jim’s Leprechaun pimp-slapping someone, the next you’ve got Krisha’s zombies lamenting the number of spelling errors in their latest document. A different comic about something different every single day, forever.

I’m seriously considering setting this up. GhostHamster.com is going woefully unused at the moment with no sign that Eric and Jeremy are interested in actually getting around to launching it, so maybe I’d stick it there. Or maybe I’d set it up as something new. But it’d be interesting to see what people think about it. I’ve already had some positive feedback on Twitter.

Any thoughts?