Comments on: My “Bliki” (Write Posts on My Blog) http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/ Tech, Entrepreneurship, and Venture Capital in New York City Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:40:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Venture Geek » Experiment in Community Blogging http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-291 Venture Geek » Experiment in Community Blogging Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:39:21 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/#comment-291 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> By: Andrew Parker http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-220 Andrew Parker Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:36:23 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/#comment-220 That's an interesting idea... I'd probably have to build the widget by hand... but it's really just a proxy for running the exact same experiment on Fred's blog, right? Fred is a very open guy (for example, you can track all the google searches he runs on this Root Worms badge on his page), so if typepad supports "contributor" registrations I could see him doing something like this. But, if I were Fred I don't think I would open my blog to posters. It's a valuable commodity considering the number of subscribers he has. Too valuable for such experimentation. I don't mean to be totally doom and gloom about the prospects of the experiment. If I were certain it would fail, I wouldn't put the effort into doing it. But, putting myself in my users shoes, I don't see the value to me, as a user, to posting to someone elses blog when I could simply post to my own (or start a blog of my own). However, I can't possible speak for or represent all my users, so I'm running this experiment just to see what happens. Perhaps someone will want to throw out some link love to their own site. Or someone will want to review their own service. Or maybe someone is as curious as I am and just wants to play around. That's all this is really: playing. That’s an interesting idea… I’d probably have to build the widget by hand… but it’s really just a proxy for running the exact same experiment on Fred’s blog, right? Fred is a very open guy (for example, you can track all the google searches he runs on this Root Worms badge on his page), so if typepad supports “contributor” registrations I could see him doing something like this. But, if I were Fred I don’t think I would open my blog to posters. It’s a valuable commodity considering the number of subscribers he has. Too valuable for such experimentation.

I don’t mean to be totally doom and gloom about the prospects of the experiment. If I were certain it would fail, I wouldn’t put the effort into doing it. But, putting myself in my users shoes, I don’t see the value to me, as a user, to posting to someone elses blog when I could simply post to my own (or start a blog of my own). However, I can’t possible speak for or represent all my users, so I’m running this experiment just to see what happens. Perhaps someone will want to throw out some link love to their own site. Or someone will want to review their own service. Or maybe someone is as curious as I am and just wants to play around. That’s all this is really: playing.

]]> By: Toby http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/comment-page-1/#comment-219 Toby Sat, 16 Sep 2006 00:54:03 +0000 http://blog.andrewparker.net/2006/09/15/my-bliki-write-posts-on-my-blog/#comment-219 I'm not sure that predicting the experiment's demise is the best way to get people to post ;) Maybe you could have a widget on Fred's blog that highlighted some of the better (or all) contributed posts. That level of exposure may spur more participation. I’m not sure that predicting the experiment’s demise is the best way to get people to post ;) Maybe you could have a widget on Fred’s blog that highlighted some of the better (or all) contributed posts. That level of exposure may spur more participation.

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