Experiment in Community Blogging
Andrew Parker of Union Square Ventures recently invited guest writers to submit to his blog in an experiment he’s conducting on community blogging. Looks like not many people took him up on it, but never one to turn down experimentation, I gave it a shot and today discovered that he’d put up my post.
For those not inclined to click through, my basic point was that guest blogging doesn’t necessarily make any sense because blogs are an interesting phenomenon precisely because they are personal and primary — that is, they are generally about the first-person experiences of specific people who have real personality and real perspective, in stark contrast to much of what we are fed by the MSM.
Nathan’s post on my blog nails it. I don’t expect any other posters mainly due to the personal nature of blogging Nathan outlines. In fact, it was a bit jarring to see that my Wordpress template doesn’t list authors next to their respective posts on the splash page, so it’s very hard to differentiate Nathan’s post from my own on my blog. This ambiguous element of my template further violates the personal nature of blogging by blurring the line between my ponderings and those of others. I’ll keep the experiment running, but if there is any significant participation I may have to change my template.
Thanks Nathan for giving it a spin.
Comment by Andrew Parker — September 20, 2006 @ 8:34 pm