Thursday, October 28, 2004
What makes a team blog worth reading?
I'm not too sure about this whole team blog thing I wrote about the other day. The Pickerville Co-Op has begun, and it's attracted a whopping total of four members. However, the only requirement so far for being a member is spending time growing up in Pickering as a kid.
That doesn't leave a lot of room for mutual interests. So far, two topics have come up. With the concern of insulting people, I'll still state: Neither of the topics are all that interesting to me. I'm not American, so I only care so much about playing the "who's going to be president?" guessing game. And I don't watch TV, let alone crappy ideas that come out of the CBC ... like this Greatest Canadian thing, which was the second topic. I think the Greatest Canadian is a stupid thing to do and just shows how insecure Canada, as a people, really is.
Personally, I think the best team blogs have a theme that all of the team members are enthusiastic about. Y'know, something like music or movies or politics or world issues or games or whatever. Frankly, outside of growing up in Pickering, I don't know that the four of us have enough in common to find a good theme. Therein lies the big issue with the Co-Op right now -- random topics of interest to maybe all or maybe only a portion of the contributors.
The Law came up with an idea for a team blog, and I think he was somewhat disappointed when I turned it down. Essentially, it would be a blog about movies that become books and books that become movies -- which are good, which are bad and what do we like and don't like about them. I don't care enough about that topic to warrant writing for a site about it. Now, maybe a team blog generally about movies would be more to my interest. Better yet, why not one specifically about science-fiction movies? That would be cool.
That doesn't leave a lot of room for mutual interests. So far, two topics have come up. With the concern of insulting people, I'll still state: Neither of the topics are all that interesting to me. I'm not American, so I only care so much about playing the "who's going to be president?" guessing game. And I don't watch TV, let alone crappy ideas that come out of the CBC ... like this Greatest Canadian thing, which was the second topic. I think the Greatest Canadian is a stupid thing to do and just shows how insecure Canada, as a people, really is.
Personally, I think the best team blogs have a theme that all of the team members are enthusiastic about. Y'know, something like music or movies or politics or world issues or games or whatever. Frankly, outside of growing up in Pickering, I don't know that the four of us have enough in common to find a good theme. Therein lies the big issue with the Co-Op right now -- random topics of interest to maybe all or maybe only a portion of the contributors.
The Law came up with an idea for a team blog, and I think he was somewhat disappointed when I turned it down. Essentially, it would be a blog about movies that become books and books that become movies -- which are good, which are bad and what do we like and don't like about them. I don't care enough about that topic to warrant writing for a site about it. Now, maybe a team blog generally about movies would be more to my interest. Better yet, why not one specifically about science-fiction movies? That would be cool.
// posted by Chris @ 11:54 AM 
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