My oblique spin on a recent list discussion.... Thoughts on blogging When one blogs, one always blogs somewhere... So (bear with me as I continue to restate the obvious, and correct me when I mis-state it) one generally blogs within a community of bloggers at some blog site... Now blogging tools have spread so that practically any site can incorporate them... Some sites are all about the blogging activity, but others want the blogging to be the generation of a portion of content, lets say in a puposive member community (Such as AFCN,or RTC)... If one is a member of several communities one often wants to share one's words and thoughts in each of the several... So, whats the strategy? Do we repeat ourselves across several blogging sites? This is the equivalent of posting one's thoughts across several email lists. Something I do when I think my content is relevant to the several audiences. Email has the virtue of the push. One can post one's content for several communities and I suppose it is made easier with certain tools-where you can blog offline. Another way to be a member of more than one community site would be to utilize rss to disseminate content. Here the question shifts to how fine grained a level of control on ehas with the site, as site owner/dsigner, and likewise fro the blogger. This depends on the design of the content management system,and the ability of the content manager to utilize it. I guess I need to get more up to speed on the different options especially for rss. Back to the beginning: when one blogs, one is blogging somewhere. You are sharing. But at the same time, is this really content you also want saved? Do bloggers retain their text in another format? Are they able to keep or download some form of their work? Do they make use of this option if available, or do they trust the medium will remain? Again: when one blogs, one blogs somewhere, and not somewhere else, unless one repeats oneself. Why do the bloggers choose to blog where they do? "And why dont they blog on my site?" Location, Location, Location... Audience, Audience, Audience.... And perhaps habit, habit, habit... its a question perhaps of where one starts their blogging. Anyway, this is just a ramble, I'm gonna copy it into my tropology blog on the AFCN site. And I welcome you to all blog there too. Even if you have blogged it elsewhere. At least until we become more refined with rss and can pull it all out of each other's brains...