Comments on: APWBWGTTD vs. ATLbloggers.net: A dilemma and potential solution http://www.duanemoody.com/2006/12/apwbwgttd-vs-atlbloggersnet-a-dilemma-and-potential-solution/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:59:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: duane http://www.duanemoody.com/2006/12/apwbwgttd-vs-atlbloggersnet-a-dilemma-and-potential-solution/#comment-4111 duane Thu, 04 Jan 2007 16:41:22 +0000 http://www.duanemoody.com/?p=30#comment-4111 This is an interesting idea, but I wouldn't want to tell people what they can and cannot blog about; I blog about whatever I want... it is my blog after all. Since ATLbloggers is a group that is just a group that came together due to similar interests (i.e., blogging), I don't see a need to kick people out because they focus on personal blogging. But I do agree, they will be seperate. Social verses blogging... it seems a line will be drawn. A weird line, but a line nonetheless... This is an interesting idea, but I wouldn’t want to tell people what they can and cannot blog about; I blog about whatever I want… it is my blog after all. Since ATLbloggers is a group that is just a group that came together due to similar interests (i.e., blogging), I don’t see a need to kick people out because they focus on personal blogging. But I do agree, they will be seperate. Social verses blogging… it seems a line will be drawn. A weird line, but a line nonetheless…

]]> By: Paul Thompson http://www.duanemoody.com/2006/12/apwbwgttd-vs-atlbloggersnet-a-dilemma-and-potential-solution/#comment-4107 Paul Thompson Tue, 02 Jan 2007 02:07:47 +0000 http://www.duanemoody.com/?p=30#comment-4107 I think you need to go in an entirely different direction. Given the diversity of opinion and talent within the ATLbloggers, you could build much more visibility by assigning roles and topics. Rowland's Office would definitely cover the Braves, Confessions the music scene, Kermit the religious side, etc. I could cover the Thrashers and Silverbacks, and perhaps part of the Politics and Media sections. No blog site in Atlanta is very fresh with that much diversity. I think given the opportunity to , you'd get a "shit or get off the pot" (either you're with us or you're against us") mentality as a group. Cover a niche Mr. and Mrs. bloggers, or be gone. People with these journalistic blogs need not be included unless their visibility dictates an interest in their life (an Andre 3000 or Monica Kaufman Pearson blog would be well read, not Joe Schmoe from Tucker). A side benefit would be that the writers would get better as a result of the visibility. I'd bet that a site with organized topics would garner huge respect, particularly with the mass media looking to cover the "blogosphere." I met you once at the East Atlanta APWBWGTTD meetup, first we went to Graveyard Tavern and then Mary's. I am a married father of one, soon to be two, and social drinking not a big part of my life at this point. However, I blog regularly and am never short of an opinion as you can tell. I think you need to go in an entirely different direction. Given the diversity of opinion and talent within the ATLbloggers, you could build much more visibility by assigning roles and topics. Rowland’s Office would definitely cover the Braves, Confessions the music scene, Kermit the religious side, etc. I could cover the Thrashers and Silverbacks, and perhaps part of the Politics and Media sections.

No blog site in Atlanta is very fresh with that much diversity. I think given the opportunity to , you’d get a “shit or get off the pot” (either you’re with us or you’re against us”) mentality as a group. Cover a niche Mr. and Mrs. bloggers, or be gone. People with these journalistic blogs need not be included unless their visibility dictates an interest in their life (an Andre 3000 or Monica Kaufman Pearson blog would be well read, not Joe Schmoe from Tucker). A side benefit would be that the writers would get better as a result of the visibility.

I’d bet that a site with organized topics would garner huge respect, particularly with the mass media looking to cover the “blogosphere.”

I met you once at the East Atlanta APWBWGTTD meetup, first we went to Graveyard Tavern and then Mary’s. I am a married father of one, soon to be two, and social drinking not a big part of my life at this point. However, I blog regularly and am never short of an opinion as you can tell.

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