Blogging and the Wisdom of Crowds

[walrus]

Originally Posted by ponygirl

So Walrus, when you talk about the community aspect of blogging, especially in 'adult' blogging, how do you suggest we incorporate that into our own blogs and business models? For myself, I want my blog to be personal, while at the same time to be a way to drive some traffic to my other sites, rather than a sales-generating machine. I have found a few good ones out there that are similar, but wading through a ton of splogs and babelogs (and what I call deadblogs - ones that haven't been updated in 6 months) to find the 'real' blogs is tough. Then when I do find them, I'm really at a loss as to what to do other than trading links. I guess I need to work on my blog social skills lol.

I have way too much to learn, I'm really glad there's some good teachers here

I agree there is an overabondance of crap out there that makes just searching decent blogs a difficult task for any one person. But as a community, the task becomes much less daunting. Plus, like you already said, breaking that build and submit mentality is a difficult one, blogging is a long term commitment which means that it's easy to get either discouraged or allow changes in prority as results are slow to come and it's hard to take it on faith that doing so will benefit you in the long run.

So, I guess what I am suggesting is that we, those who are participating in this thread, form a community and spend a little time each day checking out eachothers blogs....and leaving comments or doing trackbacks to them, or some combination of both. In other words , we generate conversations with each other. You, when you post, are pretty easy to do that with because you look at porn from a different perspective, a female one. In the long run, I think that can and will generate a lot of interest. Plus, others are much more likely to comment when they see others have on a post.

Simon also posts stuff that its pretty easy to converse about. As an example, he talked about pube dye yesterday. It was reallly pretty simple to work that into a trackback from my blog and still post a little porn to go along with it.

You and Simons blogs are pretty easy for me to keep up on simply because of your RSS feeds. Your feed is used on XXX Blog Feeds and I use the xlog feeds in my sidebars on almost every blog I do. Therefore, I would suggest using a RSS reader to keep tabs on whats going on at a few of the blogs plus when you leave a comment or a trackback, subscribe to the comments RSS feed. That way, you know and are able to follow the dialog.

Also, as a community, when we find others we invite them in and try to grow.

Yes, it would take time but, based on everything I've read, would in the long run pay dividends much worth the time.