Joomla blogosphere – Recommended reading

Comment by Amy Stephen on January 26, 2010 at 4:37pm

I don't think it's controversial but I see it in just the opposite way. It's helpful for those cited in that it provides exposure to other blogs that folks might not have noticed.

I really love to see folks cross-post here, too, because it pulls this site into a broader, better traveled circle. I think the benefit one gets from promoting others ends up being good Karma and more exposure themselves. I don't see it as a zero-sum game, but rather something that improves everyone's position.

If you see anything I wrote that was worthy, please share it! If I post something, then, I want it to be read. Sharing it in other places improves the chances that would happen.

Comment by Tess Neale on January 26, 2010 at 4:57pm

Hello there mr Brian, ;)

That's what I love about you - you speak your mind! Much appreciated.

I understand what you mean by our content not being as 'original' as it used to be and has became more of a self-promoting blog rather than knowledge sharing, which isn't our goal for the blog...so that's what we're trying to change. baby step by baby step. ;)

Our intention is to slowly but surely do what we want to do in all aspects of our life and business: promote and uplift people that do a good job, in this case takes the time to craft blog posts worth reading. We want them to benefit from our traffic (to do whatever they like with it, including making money of ads if they choose). The extracted parts of the posts is just for pure information about the blog post in question, to give a bit more info than just a heading.

We're obviously hoping that all readers will learn a lot of useful things. Things that our team might have limited knowledge about, hence rather recommending writings from others more knowledgeable in a subject. The aim is to grow this part of our blogging and possibly create separate blog posts with recommended reading on a regular basis based on subject (business, progressive enhancement, webdesign, seo, typography etc.)

The link publishing part I feel is done a lot on Twitter, and that's great, but the lifespan of a tweet is in a way shorter than a blog post IMO and for some of us a blog is just an easier way to collect resources (for bookmarking etc).

Ok, it's 1am here, so I might not make perfect sense with my comments above, so let me know if I missed anything or if you might even have a fellow blogger's blog post to recommend for next weeks roundup. ;)

Take care and keep us on our toes - you're doing a good job. :)

Cheers,
Tess

Comment by Kyle Ledbetter on January 26, 2010 at 5:12pm

So it will basically be an aggregate of the best blog posts about Joomla right? I'm all about getting our message and tips out to others and also discovering new sources. What's wrong w/that?

Comment by Peter Russell on January 26, 2010 at 5:26pm

Tess, there's plenty of room for diversity ... and, in my view, nothing wrong with sharing gems you've found around the traps. From (in a former life) a professional writer's perspective, there's nothing new or wrong about what Tess is endeavouring to do. Newsrooms around the world use wire services to fill gaps in their content. Aggregation comes in all shapes and flavours. Good luck with your efforts.

Comment by matthew l king on January 26, 2010 at 5:29pm

It's a horrible idea aggregating peoples content to give them more exposure and possibly better PR via different avenues. I mean look how poorly Digg.com does.

/end sarcasm.

I see your point Brian. This topic can easily go either way. I am guilty myself of not posting enough on PT.com. As you said, it's hard to come up with fresh content frequently. I think Tess's post however was a interesting diversion, and not really the standard for us. If it is Morphing into that, (pun intended), then it's not on purpose.

Comment by C O'Shea on January 26, 2010 at 6:42pm

and for controversy isnt this basically what joomlaconnect does? as for digg, the diggers killed it off by digbaiting

Comment by matthew l king on January 26, 2010 at 7:07pm

yeah. I'm a big Digg fan/user still. Twitter is still too much spam for my tastes. True, I can remove them, but Digg is self policing.

Comment by JoomlaBear on January 26, 2010 at 9:01pm

I really don't see anything wrong with what Tess is publishing over at Prothemer, I would be more than happy if I ended up on her list of must reads :-) Which reminds me... I haven't written anything of substance lately so the chances are pretty slim... must do something about that...

As for Digg - It's still in the top 100 - 99th in fact.

../ Bear muddles off to write something of substance /..

Comment by Mustaq Sheikh on January 26, 2010 at 10:21pm

As a concept, theres no real problem with this, however Brian has some very valid points that we tend to ignore too often, the main one being, Originality.

There are hundreds of sites out there aggregating Joomla related blog posts, and it becomes really boring for the "blog hungry readers" seeing all of them churning out same/similar "content" an can only increase your bounce rate from quality readers.

I bet my bottom $ ( that I do not have ), that Developer Type sites, Twitter and Facebook are a much better sharing concept to reach the masses.

Comment by Peter Russell on January 26, 2010 at 11:42pm

@Brian, this is exactly what news syndication is about. You pick up on something written by someone from an outside source (acknowlege that source) and either precis it or introduce a local angle. Given that Tess is taking the time to consolidate great sources, I'm sure the respective bloggers won't mind the traffic, as long as their rights are acknowledged. Surely the nature of the Internet allows for reproduction of good content with links back. You've done this yourself where you've quoted the Telegraph.

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