Business, Featured - Written Tuesday, December 9, 2008 by Denis Hancock - 3 Comments

Introducing chTONGUEeek: a wikinomics enabled humor site

A few weeks back a couple of guys from the office who thought they were kind of funny launched a new site called chTONGUEeek (i.e. Tongue in Cheek): Fair and balanced news, starting tomorrow. For a sample of some of the content you can find there (and follow via twitter or the Facebook Fan Page), you can check out some of our personal favorites such as local man accidentally purchases bank, War on Drugs accidentally claims life of big pharma executive, Paulson creates innovative new trickle up policy to save the economy, William Shatner’s New Show Debuts to “Unexpectedly Large” Audience of Five, and for Canadians in particular Penguins lead coalition attempting to declare themselves the 2008 Stanley Cup Champions. Did I mention you can follow it on twitter and Facebook?

The reason that I am writing about it here is blatant self-promotion two-fold – we are attempting to build chTONGUEeek by sticking to the principles of wikinomics, and do so at an absolute minimum of out-of-pocket expense. From what we’ve seen so far (with this project and the research), these two things often go hand in hand.

As of right now, the total expense incurred has been a little over $200, and outside of a few plans we have for rewarding contributors, we don’t expect this to go a penny higher for the foreseeable future. About 1/4 of this expense was unavoidable – domain name registration. The rest was for the logo design, and to get us off on the right wikinomics foot we decided to go with crowdSPRING for what eventually became this:

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