I have an idea.
Start a weblog directory where anyone can add their own site. The emphasis will be on writing your own description of your weblog. You can also include a link to a small image (sort of like Miguel’s shoe project). People can post comments about your site for others to read. There might be an occasional “review” of a particularly good site by guest reviewers, but the main thing would be readers and writers talking about weblogs. There would be lots of database fields you could fill in about your weblog, so people could sort by topic, location, etc.
I love what Amazon does on their book pages. You get all the pertinent details, along with commentary by the author, traditional reviewers, and all different kinds of readers. The idea is to do that for weblogs.
What do you think? I could really use some feedback on this.
Sounds like a fun idea. Someone would just need to moderate it in order to people who run porn sites and such from seeing it as a way to scam some hits.
There should be a “keep” between “to” and “people.” Doh!
1. I would have moderators who would approve new additions. But if the site was approved, the writing would stand as-is.
2. I’m hoping in the future people will be able to edit comments they’ve made. If I can figure that all out.
I think that’s a great idea… and I havenothing else to say. oh well. ;p
you could have some sort of a function to enable others to comment on the blogs listed, besides what the individual blog authors write in their descriptions; you could call this a “comment function”, for example, with author descriptions editable by author and moderator, and comments editable by those commenting and moderator, for example.
because i sometimes write something really stupid in a comment, for example, and would love to be able to come back and change it. by the way, adam, god bless you for adding that bit of code to save us from having to enter our names, emails and urls every time we comment.
I think it’s a wonderful idea! Only how does something like Amazon.com handle reviews that aren’t helpful or constructive? Like, “this book sucks. the author is a cocksucker.”
Miguel: I definitely would want people to be able to comment, and edit their comments. They would have to create some sort of lightweight username/password login.
Haidi: I think administrators should have the ability to delete or edit comments if they are inappropriate.
I like this idea, but I agree with you, Adam, that you need to have veto over inappropriate comments (especially since I’m dealing with this irritating problem, myself at the moment)
I think it’s a great idea. To me, it’s often as interesting to know what other people get out of blogs as it is to know what’s in the blogs themselves.
If that makes any sense.