It may just be that I tend to work through blog links and Twitter these days, rather than through email quite so much. (btw they did arrive).

The real comment challenge is in driving traffic out to blogs while helping focus debate, which may mean focusing visitors in one place.

Thinking, I wonder if the priority at present needs to be some way of “clumping” the debate togetherr, partly to give visibility while it becomes established, and give more of a sense of “debating chamber”. Perhaps we haven’t got he scale to treat it as a network.

At the moment it is diffuse over:

- comments
- Twitter
- posts themselves

I wonder if we can make a point of building a denser network, or have headline feeds in more places ?

Thoughts:

Get a @bloggerscircle Twitter account with the headline feed aliased to it, as well as a hashtag.

I’ve not done enough with backtalk type services to make a detailed suggestion.

Is that RSS feed edited by you, or is it for all-comers?

Matt

There is a bloggers circle RSS feed here: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/bloggerscircle?count=10

and there will be a nice sidebar in a couple of weeks – thanks for the offer.

The code of practice is really useful – and I hope I’m getting most of it right, most of the time but do say so if I’m not.

What bit of the email notification is not working for you?

I’m struggling with the email notification. Is it a lot of admin overhead for you?

Is there any easy to a “Bloggers Circle” RSS feed, or even a sidebar widget? If we have a headline RSS, all the rest is easy. I’d run it in my sidebar as a feed of interesting but not nakedly political posts.

For aggregation, I put together a set of principles 2 years ago that seem to have stood the test of time:

http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/06/17/code-of-practice-for-blog-aggregators-guidelines-for-good-blogosphere-citizens/

I think that a small cash prize would be a motivator, or perhaps a “Bloggers Circle Post of the Month” sidebar button (which would run across several blogs and take you back to the best article).

Does deciding the “best post” by “number of people commenting” tend encourage controversy over quality?

Is there something that can be done with e.g., Intense Debate, or Back Talk to help centralise comments? Not an easy balance to strike.

So this it just to add my agreement and support for all next steps.

Thanks Matt,

R

Whatever we do in terms of aggregation it must not, in any circumstances, take traffic link juice etc away from each person’s blog. I think PoliticsHome does this quite well, although more context would be useful.