Written on March 26th, 2005 at 06:03 am by Darren Rowse
The Blog Cycle
Anil Dash posts an interesing post on The Blog Cycle that sub-communities within the larger blogging population go through. Its an interesting post and one that I see the ‘entrepreneurial blogging’ community going through at the momemnt. The stages of the cycle that he identifies are:
- What is blogging?
- Our community invented blogging!
- Blogging vs. Journalism Phew.
- Where are the women/minorities?
- You’ll get fired!
- Think about the children!
- The technology is boring/unimportant.
- Will blogs change the world?
- What you do isn’t blogging — do it this way.
- They don’t deserve it!
Fascinating observations of someone who is a position to have observed many such blogging sub communities. Read more at Anil Dash: The Blog Cycle
What would you add or subtract from his stages? Where do you think the ‘Pro’, ‘Entrepreneurial’ and ‘Business’ Blogging community is at presently?
One Response to “The Blog Cycle”
Journalists, Bloggers and the Australian Blogosphere: ProBlogger Blog Tips
March 1st, 2006 10:28 am
[…] I’m not saying that those having the conversation are immature - but rather that perhaps it is a reflection of the fact that Australian blogging doesn’t have a really strong identity. Conversations about who is in, or who is legitimate are just a natural part of establishing such an identity (the conversation reminded me of some of the elements in The Blog Cycle that Anil Dash wrote about last year). […]
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