Social Media in Blog Form
GigaOM has recently launched Found+Read, a multiauthor blog about the startup process. I really like the fact that the blog, despite having been started by a very succesful blogger, leaves it up to the community to provide content. the blog goes out of its way to enourage participation by the community, soliciting ideas which are then voted on by the community. The ideas with the most votes are then selected by editors and turned into stories. Like a Digg for writers.
I think this blog has tremendous potential to effect change throughout the blogosphere. Right now, the A-list bloggers make the news. Anything an A-lister discusses is quickly picked up on and commented on by dozens of other blogs. Community blogs like this one, where anyone can participate even the playing field. It remains to be seen whether the community picks the best story ideas. But with a self-selecting crowd of entrepreneurs and technologists, using real names, there should be little trolling or stupidity.
I’m excited to read and contribute to Found+Read. I really think that a very cool community could grow up around it, producing content far superior to anything any one blogger could come up with.
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Multi-author blogs are a bit hard to swing though. It’s hard for them to find a consistent voice which is what the readers are usually looking for.
With every multi-author blog I follow I generally end up picking a couple of authors I like and subscribing to them only.
Well, hopefully the wide range of the community will create something bigger than the sum of its parts. I think the self-selecting, real-name-encouraged element will make it better than many multiauthor blogs.
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Innovation has always been welcomed and it brings more convinience for people at large. This new blogging freedom has the potential to bring greater responsibility and enhanced tansparency to the credibility of site. Its a real landmark in blogging community.
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