Fred Wilson has an interesting piece today on how some blogs have moved from being a vehicle for individual voice to a more “corporate,” newspaper like function.
I commented on his post making reference to our mission at bschoolers.com. I thought our readership would find the comment interesting:
As everyone seems to agree here, it’s difficult to call one form of blogging “better” than the other, they are more simply “different” and both serve important purposes.
While I love the personal and singular “voice” of certain blogs, I also think there is real value with multi-author blogs. Blogging is a conversation - it is about sharing perspective, insight and intellect. In some blogs the conversation takes place in the comment sections. But on others, the conversation often takes place through the top-tier blog content as well.
As a business school student, I launched an “open” business school blog called bschoolers.com. The blog is “open,” meaning anyone interested in anything business school related can post top level blog postings. We chose to launch in this open way precisely because we valued the diversity of opinion and perspective an open forum would provide, and frankly, we believed our readership would be more interested in the breadth and depth of the open forum rather than hearing from three individual students.
At the end of the day, no matter which method of blogging you prefer, we can all agree that blogging has benefited us with an explosion of information and depth of the beautiful conversation.
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December 6th, 2007 at 1:17 pm
m.. just wanna say thank you