Community blogging
Community blogging has been one area that hasn’t taken off very well so far. When I speak of community blogging, I mean people living in the same area blogging collectively and writing stuff that matters to their daily life, whatever that might mean. However, New Zealand blog, Flying Pickle seems to have done it right. With a regular flow of new post and with the best posts being selected every month and would be delivered as news letters to the 6500 strong community in Korokoro, Maungaraki and Normandale.
Zetaprints has released a case study on Flying Pickles and it discusses the numbers, costs and other details regarding how a blog can be converted and made into a mini news service. Have a read, its pretty interesting how blogs can change the traditional structure of news agency.
Jay Jenkins said,
http://www.onlymelbourne.com.au/melbourne.php?id=5277 has a list of people that blog about melbourne,There used to be a site called MelbourneBlogs.net but it was poorly designed and died a horrible death.
It would be great if you could gather multiple public feeds grouped by blog or author and create a single portal. You could also offer authoring to multiple users on a single main blog.
So when are you creating this?
Sean said,
Thats a good idea Jay. Singapore has a blog something similar but it requires bloggers to manually submit the article to the community blog portal. http://tomorrow.sg/
This is surely something that we can look into.
Jay Jenkins said,
I have a melbantoast domain that may fit
Sean said,
Sounds good.. I have the bluethots server we can run it from…
However, I am more concern about the design, technical aspects of it and what tools we can use.
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