It’s a great post ^_^

My last few lines might be a tad harsh and most of us fall under the last category. There’s another that I was reminded of but I doubt there’s too many blogs that could incorporate business like Danny Choo’s. Anyways, it’s certainly going to be a touchy subject if you write about it.

However, that doesn’t mean that solo blogs can’t do just as well or even better.

I fully agree, but the chances of such a thing are no better than 1 in 100. I think it has to do with the blog states relating to the current blogosphere. Most of the “well-established” are in fact single-author blogs, and until the growth of provided content correlates to growth of external readership, we are likely to not have a sudden boom in well-established single-author blogs… it’s reader dependent.

I like your last few lines btw, very precise, I was thinking of touching on that in the 3rd post, but I’m unsure at this point.

It all comes down to why an author blogs. If it’s for the self-gratification of hit counts/comments, then team blogs are better suited for them. If it’s for niche topics or heavy discussions, then solo blogs might be better. If just for fun, then it doesn’t matter.

(Aggregators are similar, but they aren’t intelligent)

I think google reader’s selective folder feeds are, in a sense, intelligent aggregators.

Aggregators and readers have not and will not kill the team blog.

I agree, there’s no need to kill the team blog, but it is about having equal grounds … in which, a team blog startup has no advantage over a single-author blog startup. I suppose it comes down to the readers, but they are a static variable; we cannot change them instantly, as they will ride habits and trends and readers are extremely diverse.

The author posts when they can/want, the audience tunes in when they’re notified, everyone’s happy.

This is nice, and works, but I’m shifting my perspective of a blogging community from something can/when/want, to that of “broadcast” publication, in which schedules are considered. At the same time, my conjuring idea does not eliminate or change anything about the blogosphere or blogs as a method of discussion. It is simply a meta-handle/wrapper. (Aggregators are similar, but they aren’t intelligent)

@lelangir

reader/writer/author/audience

Reader/audience is in my “future” view of the community, but I think we (not necessarily me and you as a pair) are starting to diverge into a various purposes we find in the community … for one, by community, I am excluding readers when I imply community. Also, I have a growing view of the blogosphere not as a forum/discussion/communication tool, but as a production (ie periodical).

In short, I do think professionalism can exist in our community, and if we take professional periodicals as as example, the producer-consumer communication aspect is at the core and a necessity (hence letters to the editor). I am not implying producers/authors need to be that segregated/disconnected from the audience, but until the audience picks up its keyboard and becomes an author, they are in two different worlds. imo

Perhaps that’s the wrong view, but I’m mixing what we have (otakusphere) with what we see exists [professionally], it’s not necessity, but I think its a strong future.

I have not finitely sorted these ideas in the coming post, so they may be different.