2010 has arrived and this year I’d like to expand sallyfriends.net even further – to become a big, flourishing community for friends of Sally’s all over the world – and I’d like to hear your ideas!
The site went active around 1 September 2009, and so far I have done about 45 pages about pretty much everything that just happened to excite me about my favourite literary addiction: Stieg Larsson’s Millennium-series. But I want to do more pages – lots more! And I would like to do as many of them as possible with you!
Now, I have ideas for a number of new pages (and have received a few suggestions). Skim through them and see if anything catches your interest. Everybody is welcome to comment on what they’d like me to do next – there is absolutely no obligation to participate. If you just want to throw in a few ideas of your own, be my guest! 
(If you want to have a quick overview of all existing pages – check out the SITE INDEX first!)
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- The Books
- Characters (extensive bios on each major character and some of the minor ones)
- Coolest Scenes & Quotes- vote and submit
- Inspirations (more about Stieg Larsson’s inspirations when writing Millennium)
- Kalle Blomkvist
- Rocky
- Crime novels
- Quentin Tarantino
- Neo-nazism fight
- Scenes and Locations
- Lots more pages for both characters and important events + maps
- Characters (extensive bios on each major character and some of the minor ones)
- Themes –
- Politics and economics in Millennium
- Gender roles
- Sex and Relationships in Millennium
- Exposé journalism
- Hacking for Justice?
- Famous Women (Warriors) in history
- Like Millennium … (reviews of stuff that is as good as Millennium)
- Books
- Films
- Movies:
- More pics from movies and for Noomi Shrine
- Yasmine Garbi fan page
- Music
- Movies music/soundtracks
- Musical inspiration (music we like – because it reminds us of Millennium)
Other ideas:
- Wallpaper section expand
- A page about Eva Gabrielsson’s upcoming book + the two new Swedish books on Stieg Larsson’s life (I’ll be damned if I can remember the titles, though …)
- Millennium Screen CAPS!!
- Major poster og bookcover-gallery
- DVD prices and availability
- Book review page
- Fan fiction competition
That’s what I could think of – on top of my head. Additional ideas are welcome! And if you would like to help doing one or more of the above pages – by all means, go for it. I’d love to collaborate some more with Stieg Larsson fans from all over the world.
’till later,
Chris
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Bueno Chris te deseo mucha suerte con tu emprendimiento, espero que aumente la cantidad de lectores asi podes poner el chat.
Realmente nose que pasa en internet que no hay mas sitios interesantes sobre millennium como el tuyo, crei que iba a pasar algo similar a lo de Crepusculo, pero por un lado mejor no tener a ese tipo de gente… bueno nose como describir a los fans del crepusculo ,jaja.
Saludos.
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Gracias, AixaDanixa!! Chat, tu dices? Hmm … voy a considerarlo! Hasta luego – Chris
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If I can add a comment, could I recommend that you add in a forum of some sort? It would probably be easier to have real discussions of the Millenium books and establish a community if you have an onboard forum (and given that enough people join on).
phpBB3 or any other popular forum software (not phpNuke though) would be cool
My 0.02GBP.
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I’d love to have a forum, but I think we need to wait a couple of more months. So far there’s been about 100 comments over 4 months, and half of them my replies
I receive about 2-4 comments on average per day. I’d say that when we reach at least 5 times that volume, and we would be at a point where a forum could be sustainable. (And thanks for the software suggestions, BTW!)
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I have to disagree. I’ve seen other websites (particularly fansites for small film / book fans – such as http://www.let-the-right-one-in.com/) thrive simply because they had a forum to begin with and some good content. After a while, word of mouth (and a higher Google pagerank) spread and the community is fairly sizable.
The two things that I would say would help this website would be a small but active fan forum (don’t add lots of categories, that just makes it look empty if you’ve only got a readership in doulbe digits) and the addition of (good) Millenium fan fiction,as those are the two things no other fansite has yet.
First though, I suppose, is to get more content up and a higher pagerank
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I’ll second that.
Leaving comments is OK, but it gets a bit hard to follow when a topic gets busy.
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Okay, on second thought you are probably right. The layout of nested comments isn’t exactly, well, nice. I’ll check out Stormbringer’s suggestions out and see what I can do. And when.
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I would love some more contribs – on all topics, but I have to admit that I’m not holding my breath. It’ll probably take at least some months before there’re enough readers to squeeze out that small percentage of regular quality contributors, which can really light up a site.
Actually, I’d like some fan fiction most of all but it’s funny … I’ve prowled the net far and wide and deep and so far I’ve found absolutely nothing! I would have thunk that Millennium would spawn a zillion fanfics already but so far … zilch! If anybody sees anything out there, worth reading, do let me know!
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I might write something about it someday – I haven’t tried writing in Larsson’s style yet. At some point I might add some contributions as well, by the way.
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More on Stieg Larsson. For example, I would love to see quotations (things he said, not things his characters said). I’m looking forward to the books about him, and would love to see more about him on the website.
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There’s a new book out by Larsson’s old activist-friend, Kurdo Baksi, “My friend Stieg Larsson”. It’s in Swedish but fortunately it’s still within my Scandinavian language range, so I’ll try to get it as soon as possible and review it here on sallys. There should be plenty of quotes there to begin with! (And thanks for the great idea, by the way!) Stay tuned.
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Thanks! Not having any Scandinavian languages, I appreciate the translation. Surfing the web one day I found some interesting comments he wrote about his characters (but sadly did not note the address).
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SOunds like his “friend” makes Stieg out to be a less than careful journalist and a bad writer. Could the “friend” be cashing in?
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Oh, you mean Kurdo Baksi in his book “Min vän Stieg Larsson” (My friend Stieg Larsson), in which he claims that ‘Larsson could not write’? Probably – at least such a claim gives him extra attention and may result in extra sales.
This ‘debate’ – about Larsson’s writing skills and share in the actual writing process – has been going on in the (Swedish) media for a week now. For example: This morning Eva Gabrielsson was quoted in a Danish newspaper for saying she had ‘a larger role’ in the writing process than she had admitted previously. But she still was not very specific.
The whole thing comes of as a bit petty, if you ask me and I don’t really feel inclined to write about it myself. But I would like to make an in-depth article about the pros and cons of Larsson’s writing. I’ve already discussed these in other articles, where I praise his creativity, originality and sense of pace but also note that I don’t like his manifold subplots that don’t really connect to the main plot (such as Erika moving to another newspaper in Millennium 3).
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lisbeth and mikael’s song is definitely smashing pumpkins-ava adore (we must never be apart
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thom yorke -and it rained all night (my favorite song )
we fell to earth -the double
massive attack -dissolved girl -lisbeth’s song
linkin park-nobody’s listening
janes addiction-just because
marilyn manson-arma-god-damn-mother-f.ckin-geddon (lisbeth’s t-shirt’s song lol )
Queens of the stone age- sick sick sick ,
Flyleaf -I’m so sick
… =)
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