What is a Blog Off: a Blog Off post
Every weeks, the blogosphere comes alive with something referred to as a Blog Off. A Blog Off is an event in which bloggers of every stripe weigh in on the identical subject matter on the same day. The subject matter for this spherical of the Blog Off is "What is a Blog Off?"
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In 1975, the British group Supertramp launched the album "Crisis? What Crisis?" and its cowl artwork sums up my sentiments about our cutting-edge instances perfectly. That to image in query dates from 1975 (a year I do not forget too properly) tells me that not anything ever modifications.
The global goes to hell and it's wasting no time getting there however Blog Offs allow me see an trade fact. Every weeks, we get to put in writing about the identical factor and interpret it as we want to. It's fascinating to study all of the members' takes on a given subject matter and it reaffirms my faith in humanity to look the quantity of precise will spilled out on Twitter on Blog Off days. Total strangers forestall what they may be doing, examine a participating blog submit, depart a comment and Tweet about it. Would that the whole lot labored with such genial generosity.
As a founding father of this thing I see new bloggers build communities round themselves with Blog Offs and these things give humans like me who've been at it for some time the threat to inspire learners. I constantly study something and I never forestall marveling at the terrific human beings my fellow bloggers are.
So despite the fact that the whole thing appears to be falling apart, there is this. The Blog Off and the network of bloggers and Twitter-ers who keep it alive every two weeks. It makes me assume that all isn't misplaced in any case.
And as one of the individuals who maintains this factor alive, we are looking for you to assist us refine what we're doing. How can we better serve the Blog Off community? What subjects must we address and simply how commercial are you willing to allow us to get? We have a designer-ly skew even though no longer all people who participate have have an involvement within the refuge enterprise. How are we able to grow our pool of individuals without alienating the oldsters we've on board already? This subject matter is the proper opportunity to allow it all out, for accurate and horrific. How are we able to make this factor better and greater useful?
As today wears on, and as I fly to San Francisco, a table of all the participating bloggers will appear here. Please do me a favor and click on the links to see what people from all over think about the Blog Off.