Advice Request: Baconmas Website

orthonormal

The Gist: I started this blog to get people excited about a science-themed holiday. I want your suggestions before I advertise it to everyone I know!

Two years ago, I came up with the idea of celebrating Sir Francis Bacon's birthday (Jan. 22) as a festive science-themed holiday called Baconmas. (The name has the additional bonus that it's easy to convince people to come to a party if there will be bacon there.) I had a good Baconmas party in 2010 and a better one in 2011, and now I want to let other people in on the fun.

So I made a website.

It's currently "in beta"; I wrote a couple of preparatory things, but haven't yet shown it to the vast majority of my friends. I want to maximize the chance that it goes a bit viral when I do, because a science-themed holiday really needs to exist. So I'd like any suggestions you have, before I go "alpha" with it. So as to not cause anchoring, I'll put down in the first comment the things I already plan to do- if you could make all your original suggestions first, then read those plans and others' comments, then add more suggestions, that should maximize the good ideas. Thanks!

(Oh, and it goes without saying that you should celebrate Baconmas if at all possible. It's been a lot of fun for me.)

The Gist: I started this blog to get people excited about a science-themed holiday. I want your suggestions before I advertise it to everyone I know!

So I made a website.

(Oh, and it goes without saying that you should celebrate Baconmas if at all possible. It's been a lot of fun for me.)

I think the website should be more ... exciting? I'm not sure that's quite it, but it doesn't currently look like something that would go viral.

I'd guess your best bet for going viral would be a really funny and catchy video. Perhaps you could get the SMBC folks to help you? They seem friendly to this kind of thing.

Thanks- I added a header, put pictures and videos in the next posts, and mentioned it to Zach Weiner (and humbly noted that it would be absolutely awesome if SMBC Theater happened to do a Francis Bacon bit.)

2ahartell14y

I agree with you, but for the record, I really do like the aesthetic of the website.

5radical_negative_one14y

I wouldn't be surprised to see SMBC celebrating Baconmas. Getting a mention on that website would get you a lot more views. Or XKCD, that's probably the biggest science-themed webcomic. There must be a few people here who frequent the XKCD forum, maybe a mention of Baconmas could be put in over there. I agree that the website could be more colorful, it could use some strips of bacon lining the margins, or a portrait of Francis Bacon at the top.