Group Blogs, Blog Communities I think he's onto something, but I think the terminology is wrong (Dave's
comment about using RSS to dynamically assemble group blogs by category is
also interesting).
There's a difference between a blog aggregation, which I would call a
"blog community", such as JavaBlogs or the
Daily Kos diaries and a "group
blog". A blog community brings together content from people with related
interests. They tend to be insular and mostly read by the other members of
the blog community. It a slightly more distributed discussion forum. A
group blog is when a couple of people come together on one blog to write
about the same topic, for example En Banc
(legal), or Not Geniuses (politics). The
distinction may seem pedantic, but I think it is important. A group blog
is not insular; it is a part of the larger blogosphere. Group bloggers are
often experts or well-reknowned in their own right before the join
together. A group blog allows people who might not have enough time to run
their own site a chance to create something that's bigger than the sum of
its parts.
(P.S.: I am writing for a group blog which I
started. Currently, there is one other author, but as the traffic to the
site heats up and the 2004 campaign gets more underway, I am going to need
more help, because I won't be able to keep up with the time demands of
indexing every campaign ad.)
Dave Winer links
to a piece by
Robert Scoble about why he doesn't like group blogs.
Posted at 23:30
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