Lady and Gentlemans
Once upon a time we used to have more than justblogs.
We had acommunityofbloggers.
Afamilyof writers.
Atroupeof wordsmiths.
Anoverbearingsense ofmelodrama.
It was...beautiful...
And it was called:
We had acommunityofbloggers.
Afamilyof writers.
Atroupeof wordsmiths.
Anoverbearingsense ofmelodrama.
It was...beautiful...
And it was called:
THE BLOGOSPHERE
I'm only half fucking with you. We still have blogs, and we still have a community, but the blogosphere is conceptually more than that. We had something more than people just randomly posting up junk, or spamming blogs for quests. We had something more than individuals who posted their own content and ignored that of everybody else. We had a community. Maybe we still do?
Enough is enough.
It's time to address the current state. It's time for action! I have invited some of Giant Bomb's most revered writers to join me in a project which has been dubbed:
The Blog Initiative is a community project designed to showcase and encourage the best bloggers here on Giant Bomb. I'm going to be honest, I was pretty drunk when I thought of this shit, but I wrote to some people and their support encouraged me to actually do something about it. For the next month, we will be using this thread to seek out the most awesome writers and showcase their work here. What makes a good blogger? Articulacy, consistency, personality and passion. It many cases it doesn't matter what you are writing about, but if you can do it with enough enthusiasm and flair then just about anyone can enjoy reading your work. Perhaps more importantly is consistency. A blog is all about context. It's about building up a relationship between the writer and audience, and that familiarity is the difference between a blog and a press release. It's the reason we are all here at Giant Bomb. It's the reason we return to the same website, day after day...
So I'm inviting you
to take part in The Blog Initiative. Have you ever wanted to write down your thoughts but have been too nervous or lazy to do so? Have you been silently blogging away but have remained largely ignored? The blog initiative aims to address those issues by finding and showcasing the hidden gems deep within blog mountain. It's going to be a wacky adventure full of false promises, ominous chicken-headed men pushing baby prams, and rushed group photoshop projects...
SO WHAT WE NEED FROM YOU
Is your support. If you can't blog or can't be fucked to blog, support those around you that are making the effort. If you read something you like, leave the writer a comment. If you see something you don't like, leave them a comment anyway! Write some constructive criticism, or encouragement. Comments are the best way of letting a writer know that you have seen their work and, even if the comments aren't a direct response to the subject, it's unbelievably encouraging for writers to know they aren't just throwing words out into nothingness...
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