It occurs to me that it might be very useful to have some sort of ‘hub’ for such blogs—something similar to the autism hub (which I don’t actually recommend; all the bloggers I’ve liked have left the hub in the last 6 months or so).
It seems to me that that would have the potential to increase the chance of getting positive feedback, and also the chance of getting feedback if you start to slip—if the blogs are sorted by the date of their most recent post, it’s fairly easy for someone to scroll down to the last few entries and post comments along the lines of “hey, are you still doing this?”. (Perhaps each participant could commit to making at least one comment of either type per month, or something.)
I took some time to play with some tools, and managed to turn out a simple version of this. (Thanks in part to evelynm who gave me a the idea to use google docs when I was stuck for an output method.)
The web page is here, currently using the most recent posts of the top 5 LW contributors as dummy data. It lists the most recent item from each RSS feed on its list, in chronological order.
If you have a blog that you’d like to have added, email me.
Edit: Found a bug, not sure if it’s solvable. I’ll keep playing with this, but might give up without feedback.
It occurs to me that it might be very useful to have some sort of ‘hub’ for such blogs—something similar to the autism hub (which I don’t actually recommend; all the bloggers I’ve liked have left the hub in the last 6 months or so).
It seems to me that that would have the potential to increase the chance of getting positive feedback, and also the chance of getting feedback if you start to slip—if the blogs are sorted by the date of their most recent post, it’s fairly easy for someone to scroll down to the last few entries and post comments along the lines of “hey, are you still doing this?”. (Perhaps each participant could commit to making at least one comment of either type per month, or something.)
I took some time to play with some tools, and managed to turn out a simple version of this. (Thanks in part to evelynm who gave me a the idea to use google docs when I was stuck for an output method.)
The web page is here, currently using the most recent posts of the top 5 LW contributors as dummy data. It lists the most recent item from each RSS feed on its list, in chronological order.
If you have a blog that you’d like to have added, email me.
Edit: Found a bug, not sure if it’s solvable. I’ll keep playing with this, but might give up without feedback.