Freedomblog faded away?
August 21 2003
A natural activity when returning from a week
away is to surf through the various blogs that one reads. I found
that Wolfgang
Flamme actually maintains a pretty
comprehensive list of all "Domino bloggers" -- whatever that
means ;) -- so I started using his blogroll as a launchpad.
To my surprise, I found that freedomblog.com
appears to have faded away. Anthony's blog software seems to have
born a pretty significant portion of the Domino blogging community, but
he himself stopped blogging around March 1. Six months later, the
site itself stops.
I hope this isn't a trend. There
are now something like 100 blogs on Wolfgang's list.... that's pretty decent
growth percentage-wise in public Internet blogging using Domino. I
also think that number will increase, as I have seen presentations announced
at various upcoming conferences and user groups about weblogging with Lotus
Domino (links to those soon). Anthony, if you are out there, thanks
a lot for kick starting a healthy segment of this community, and good luck
in your future.
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Ed Brill www.edbrill.com | 8/22/2003 3:48:50 AM
I agree with you, Ben. It's a time-investment, and of course you want some return on that investment.
My advice to some of the "Domino bloggers" out there is that they need to get more active in other people's blogs. By which I mean, don't assume that just because you are blogging, you are now the center of the universe and people will come to you. They will, for a while. But not forever.
I have found it very challenging to maintain a good blogroll. I have to admit that I don't read every "Domino blog" regularly (yesterday was just a good opp to do so). I've been selective, maybe too much so, about who is on the blogroll for now.
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Chris Toohey http://www.dominoguru.com | 8/22/2003 9:15:56 AM
My posts (both blogs and the articles\tips) have taken a drastic "dip" as of late (I'm sick of seeing the "No Donuts" message myself).
This isn't due to the fact though that I'm pulling back or will eventually stop - I've just been too busy as of late.
With a full-time job, trying to get a full-time company off the ground, trying to finalize my v2 template AND a wife and kids at home... something's gotta drop.
One thing that I'm working on to hopefully alleviate (sp?) the lack-of-posts (at least for the blogs that is) is the ability to blog via email or SMS-based messaging.
Hopefully, once I've gotten the kinks out, I'll be able to get rid of one of those darned "donuts" messages and hopefully you'll see more and more 'blogs thanks to that "newly added feature".
-Chris
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Chris Miller (IdoNotes) http://www.IdoNotes.com | 8/22/2003 11:30:46 AM
That really freed me up to quick postings, but I used it as quick ideas only instead of full postings. But you could easily do that if you wanted.
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jonvon http://jonvon.net/ | 8/22/2003 12:38:45 PM
if my stats are accurate (and i'm sure they are) most of my regular traffic is from rss readers. most of the rest is google / yahoo. this means, you can take a month off, do what you need to do, and blog when you want to. no skin off anyone's back... the reader software lets you know when someone is blogging. that said, traffic does die off when you stop blogging. i haven't been real active this month, and traffic is down. but you gotta have balance in life. i'll probably be blogging for a long time to come because i like to write for the sake of writing. but i have to live my life at the same time...
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Ben Langhinrichs http://www.GeniiSoft.com/showcase.nsf/GeniiBlog | 8/23/2003 7:10:25 AM
I mean, you have Tony on your blog roll... You have jonvon on your blog roll... But (sniff), not me. I mean, what happens when your readers tire of reading about hotels and flights, and want a bracing bit of good rich text to tide them over. Where do they go? How will they know? <grin>
Since both Rocky Oliver and I have had fairly good experiences with blogging, I know of other Penumbra members who will start soon, and I know of a few other Domino BPs who are working on getting started. I think it is not surprising that there is some attrition. As you know, blogging takes a considerable amount of effort, and it doesn't always turn out to be worth it. I was starting to slow down myself until I started writing my series of articles about rich text, which has been popular and convinced me to keep going for a while.