The Good Blogs

Posted on September 19, 2006
Filed Under People's Web 2.0 |

I got this from Vernon Lun at TheGoodBlogs after I asked him to write a few words about ther aims and progress. I really wish these guys well - their objectives are exactly what the web needs right now.

We’re two Canadian software veterans (30+ years of software development between the two of us). After many iterations of building other people’s companies (at various levels, developers, VPs and CTOs), we wanted to do something that would incorporate a couple of passions: blogging, building communities, creating distributed networks and not be encumbered by large companies.

We’re essentially self-funded at this point because we wanted to make sure our intent was diluted.

While having revenue would be a good ultimate aim (since we also need to eat), I would consider our endeavour a great success if we could connect a couple hundred bloggers, drive up their readership and expose many great blogs, like your to new readers.

Based on a very small beta (by design) we are already seeing numbers beyond our expectations. We would have promoted our blogger members over 750,000 times by the time you read this (and that is in the space of 6 weeks).

We believe that the model we are seeing is that each blogger is like an island, each with his/her small group of readers. To get each blogger more readers, we need to connect the bloggers so readers can go from island to island. So TheGoodBlogs is all about blog discovery and blog promotion.

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3 Responses to “The Good Blogs”

  1. Ian Delaney on September 19th, 2006 3:29 pm

    I’m a fellow “good blogger” - in title only, alas - and found your site through the system. You’re now on my RSS feeds. Testament enough to the system working, eh?

    Will be interesting to see how quality controls can be scaled as the system comes out of beta.

  2. Vernon Lun on September 19th, 2006 9:14 pm

    Thanks for the support, Haydn. We’ve noticed the RSS circulation of some of bloggers have increased. While it is easy for us to track the number of readers sent via the TheGoodBlogs network, it is more intangible for us to measure the effect of increased exposure. But as they say, there is no such thing as bad press! There is the subconscious effect of seeing someone’s blog again and again wherever you go.

    We also like the randomness of bringing blogs to the reader beyond the blogroll. Most bloggers have very little time keeping their blogrolls up to date. We only circulate blog entries that are less than 30 days old ensuring that bloggers who stop blogging will naturally fall out of the network.

  3. haydn on September 21st, 2006 9:57 am

    Hi Ian

    I’ll keep a track of what you’re saying and come over and comment.

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