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This is a great read.
And, as I also said in the comments, I love it when personal blogs serve as an outlet for the deeper kinds of thinking/analysis that we are all obviously missing in our daily, professional lives (with all respect to Mashable, in this example).
I’m seriously considering the following — we start a peer-reviewed blog of blogs that is full of minimum 750 word posts (or some such parameter) from bloggers writing in their spare time.
If you think it’s a good idea, lemme know. It’d be something of an EDGE Journal for the rest of us;) And again, I am dead serious. We could have the site designed in a week, with some sort of internal-only voting mechanism (Pligg, etc.) for the peer-reviewed part, and maybe a certain threshold to trigger publishing? The caveat would be that you couldn’t go live with the post on your own site until it went live in the journal site (with a link back to you, of course). I guess then too if you didn’t receive the required number of votes within 2 weeks the piece would be released from the queue and you’d be free to publish on your own. I’d also be interested in other parameters, such as publishing a maximim of 1 post per day, so that can ensure that each article gets the attention and conversation that it deserves.
I think we’d need to limit the number of “members” though, as elitist as that sounds — maybe to something like 50 peeps? Otherwise it lacks the value of curatorship, and the point of the whole endeavor is to establish an exceptionally high-quality destination blog that is a traffic driver and growth mechanism for our personal sites/brands, while eschewing monetization in the name of…just good thinking and writing (that hell, we’re doing anyway, just in a super-distributed fashion). In the best case scenario it ends up prompting us to write MORE of this good stuff.
Just initial thoughts…
