Making Our Blogs Conversation Corners In One, Limitless Building

I love our blog. But one of the things I’ve been thinking about is that this blog is only part of the conversation.

If I’m on James Poulter’s blog, I’ll be discussing the recommendation economy. If I’m on Jeff Hurt’s blog, I’m discussing event design. The topics are different, but it’s one big conversation happening across many corners.

The best most blogs come to acknowledging this is a blogroll or post aggregation – neither of which are a meaningful way to join conversations together.

Robin put it well: “the currently available blog templates are designed around the self-centric web-logging.” That means we need to address how our blogs work from a design standpoint if we want to adopt the idea that conversations are happening across multiple places, not just one.

What I want: a way for regular contributors here to have profiles on this blog. Their posts pulled in, linking to their own sites. The homepage showing the best conversations across multiple places. Comments treated as just as important as posts. A digital book club where we discuss a particular book together every Friday.

The future of blogging is collaboration and sharing. Not one voice. Many voices, well guided.