Comments on: Why Are Multi-Writer Weblogs More Popular?

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 18:56:27 +0000

Thanks, Debbie I think I enjoy doing both types of posting.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 12:26:21 +0000

… for including me in such an illustrious list. I also see a noticeable jump in traffic when I cross-post to a group or multi-author blog to which I contribute. People only have so much time and attention. You gotta hit ‘em everywhere they go online seeking whatever information they’re looking for. Just makes sense. – D

By: Lizsun

Lizsun — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 12:19:46 +0000

I have faith in you, Raj.
You’ll get there.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 15:02:02 +0000

Aw shucks. Thanks for the kind words, Liz, but I think I have a ways to go yet. My multiple-cult-of-personalities print magazine lost momentum when it went defunct, but maybe one day…

By: Lizsun

Lizsun — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 19:52:27 +0000

Thanks Raj,
I think Yaro’s right. Too many folks act like blogging is just slapping words on the screen and waiting for traffic. The magic happens when the brain is wired to the heart around the topic that someone is writing about. It happens a lot on this blog.

PS. You handle the crowd like a master. I think you might think about adding yourself to the list very soon.

Thanks Gary
Liz

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 10:17:27 +0000

Yaro: thanks. Wonderful advice from the proverbial horse’s mouth. Well, one of the herd, anyway

By: Yaro

Yaro — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:05:07 +0000

Cult of personality hey – so I’m a cult leader…hmm…I wonder if I can get them all to drink the shiny liquid

Good points. I believe anyone who puts their time into really projecting their personality into their blogging can develop the cult. Most just don’t bother, spend more time regurgitating other people’s news and forget to add the little personality magic. You gotsta have the magic.

Okay, I’m going to bed now…

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 31 May 2006 16:43:05 +0000

TDavid: I was being graceful. I also was baiting I wanted exactly the type of comment you gave. Thank you for your take on this.

Gary: Agreed

By: TDavid

TDavid — Wed, 31 May 2006 15:13:10 +0000

Raj – I must respectfully disagree with this statement: “There are many examples of this, including *most* of the Weblogs, Inc blogs”

I’d change the word “most” to “some” of the WIN blogs. I think once one gets past their flagship blogs like Engadget, Cinematical, TV Squad and a few others it gets to be slim pickings as far as quality. The Gawker network has a higher percentage of quality blogs than WIN. Clearly Denton is going for quality over quantity, unlike Calacanis and now AOL.

It’s easy to make this assumption but really, how many of the WIN blogs do you read regularly? There are like 70 or so of them and I doubt that anybody reading this comment — who doesn’t work at WIN — is reading more than 35 of them, much less subscribed to them.

As for 11 months of writing your ass off? Keep at it. I didn’t really start seeing some serious traffic until 18 months of writing my ass off.

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:25:08 +0000

Raj –

You should always put Miz Liz on your A-List.

By: Raj Dash

Raj Dash — Wed, 31 May 2006 10:25:57 +0000

Thanks, Gary. Actually, I had Liz in my edited list, but it appears I copied the older version of my post.

By: Gary Miller

Gary Miller — Wed, 31 May 2006 09:55:44 +0000

I would add Liz Strauss to that list of bloggers who have a dedicated following. She has some of the most devoted readers in the blogosphere.