What makes a Domino blogger - I think there are definately the 2 categories - the community blogs which combine tech with personal stuff, and the pure tech blogs. I think there is a place for both, and is why I think both types should be added to dominoblogs.com.
As Volker says - many people are interested in personal stories, opinions, other things from some blogs because they "know" the person, while others just want to get the tech "how to" stuff.
dominoblogs.com was designed out of an expressed desire at Lotusphere to find bloggers who are in (or want to join) the Domino community. The other initiative which came out of Lotusphere blogging sessions launched by Rocky Oliver - "Show n Tell Thursdays"
The idea is to help people who are just interested in reading the tech stuff to find it easily, and also to try to encourage people who can stray into just personal content to make an effort to keep some technical content (I'm not great at this myself!). We have added as spot in Dominoblogs for people to list the RSS feed just for these entries, so people could choose just to subsribe to this feed. Richard Schwartz was also planning to develop an aggregator of all the SnTT feeds so you could have a single place to read all the technical entries coming from the domino bloggers.
Maybe this would answer some of the desires expressed above?
@William - I know what you mean re pricing for Domino hosting - my blog is not Domino because I never had a suitable hosting option available, and now I just don't want to move.
What makes a Domino blogger - I think there are definately the 2 categories - the community blogs which combine tech with personal stuff, and the pure tech blogs. I think there is a place for both, and is why I think both types should be added to dominoblogs.com.
As Volker says - many people are interested in personal stories, opinions, other things from some blogs because they "know" the person, while others just want to get the tech "how to" stuff.
dominoblogs.com was designed out of an expressed desire at Lotusphere to find bloggers who are in (or want to join) the Domino community. The other initiative which came out of Lotusphere blogging sessions launched by Rocky Oliver - "Show n Tell Thursdays"
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The idea is to help people who are just interested in reading the tech stuff to find it easily, and also to try to encourage people who can stray into just personal content to make an effort to keep some technical content (I'm not great at this myself!). We have added as spot in Dominoblogs for people to list the RSS feed just for these entries, so people could choose just to subsribe to this feed. Richard Schwartz was also planning to develop an aggregator of all the SnTT feeds so you could have a single place to read all the technical entries coming from the domino bloggers.
Maybe this would answer some of the desires expressed above?
@William - I know what you mean re pricing for Domino hosting - my blog is not Domino because I never had a suitable hosting option available, and now I just don't want to move.