kingjon wrote:
Personally, I don't have time or attention to spare to contribute guest posts (if I did, I'd submit something to the Holy Worlds blog), because I have so many topics I've scheduled myself to write about that my schedule (though it keeps slipping, with everything else going on in my life) is in some categories full up of essays-to-write almost through the end of the year.
This is a good point. Most people don't blog very much because of their own business (which is why I suggested collaboration be only once a month, though that seems too often for you). Would you be able to be able to contribute (or host guest posts) ever? Perhaps once or twice a year? Or, if we were to have a week where we all wrote on one topic, a poem or essay which addressed the 'topic of the week'?
Another thing I've discovered is that some people have difficulty coming up with stuff to blog about even when they do have time. Since one of the most important parts of blogging is consistency, I hoped this would offer a means for bloggers to put posts out more uniformly rather than only one every few months.
If anyone else has either of these two difficulties, feel free to (please) comment on it.
kingjon wrote:
One thought I had: Many Internet communities (such as, in particular, the developers and/or users of a Linux distribution or other popular free software package) have what's called a "planet" (after one program that does this), a page that aggregates recent posts on the blogs of the members of the community. It might be nice if HW had such a thing.
This is an interesting idea. For a moment, I wondered if the HW blog could be this sort of thing, but that would kind of ruin the autonomy of the blog, so probably a separate page would be better (though still on the HW site somewhere). However, since the HW blog is kind of a conglomeration of multiple member's posts, this would be an interesting idea. Though, those who follow individual blogs would be rereading old material.
