Are you a Web publishing addict?

- Do you, personally, own several domain names?

- Have you ever given someone a domain as a gift?

- Have you ever, in the course of everyday conversation, said to yourself, "Hey, that would make a great website!", then gone home and started building it?

- Do you plan vacations around WiFi access?

- Does your ideal weekend involve getting away to a remote (yet WiFi accessible) place with no distractions -- so you can spend the entire time building new features for your websites without interruption?

- Do you remember Gopher, Mosaic or the Whole Internet Catalog?

- Have you ever based naming a child on Web domain availability?

- Are you, at heart, an unapologetic idealist who believes that journalists building websites can help make the world a more informed, better entertained and more neighborly place?

If so, I think it's time some of us got together and formed a support group. No, not to kick the habit. We need a support group so can we hang out with like-minded addicts and rationalize our spending even more time and attention online.

I'm thinking that if the group's small enough, I can arrange a lunch or drinks meeting at the ONA convention in New York in October. Or, if interest is greater, I can put together a day-long event here at USC sometime. Regardless of the place or way we meet, I'd like to find a way for journalists with serious Web publishing addictions to get together somehow, alone and without the non-addicts or non-journalists who seem to make up the bulk of attendees at most of the gatherings I've been to recently.

If you're interested, holler my way.

- Robert Niles, OJR Editor