{"id":379,"date":"2003-06-24T22:45:39","date_gmt":"2003-06-25T03:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=379"},"modified":"2003-06-24T22:45:39","modified_gmt":"2003-06-25T03:45:39","slug":"successful-blog-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Successful blog communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/seablogs.hellbent.org\/\">Seattle blog portal<\/a> sparked some reflections about what makes a metablog successful.<br \/>\nSeattle&#8217;s blog portal, and the Austin metablog, come out of existing communities. People want to read other people&#8217;s posts.<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/topicexchange.com\/t\/weblog_business_strategies_conference\/\">TopicExchange for the Clickz Jupitermedia Weblog in Business Conference<\/a> was successful at gathering posts from the conference. I remember the aggregator for Kevin Werbach&#8217;s Supernova conference last year was excellent, too.<br \/>\nThey were successful because there was a community of people, in the room and outside of the room, who wanted to follow people&#8217;s takes on the conference.<br \/>\nThought that the Sam Ruby wiki should have a trackback aggregator; looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mplode.com\/cgi\/moinmoin-tbp.cgi\/MoinMoinQuickyTrackBackProxy\">TimA<\/a>  may have got to it already.<br \/>\nCommunication patterns:<br \/>\n* A real-time event with people following in-person and remotely, or<br \/>\n* An active project, where people are working individually and together, or<br \/>\n* An ongoing community, where people are blogging individually and want to stay in touch<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.mplode.com\/cgi\/moinmoin-tbp.cgi\/MoinMoinQuickyTrackBackProxy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-67","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}