Horsey Blogging Community: Offshoot

14 December 2006 5 Comments

This is an outdated post. The site/script being discussed has been superseded by HorseBloggers.

Patricia (Experiments in Training Equines) and I have been talking a little about what/how re: horsey blogging community. I’m supposed to be emailing her back, but I’m not sure what I’ve got/where it has the potential to go. And since I like to make my confusion public, what better place to work it out than here?

Here’s what I do have: a program that could be used to develop a directory of horse blogs.

I don’t think it’s very community minded, if by community we mean it’s going to encourage bloggers to post more on each others’ blogs, or perhaps band together around common goal(s), or check in on some forum-like site, or in any way get to know each other better. All the directory is… is a directory. And my impulse says to make it very general–to allow any horse-related blog to be listed, in the hopes that it would be a useful way to find horse-related blogs, no matter what aspect of horses/riding the bloggers wrote about.

Of course, if we ever did figure out what we mean by ‘community’, the script could easily be adapted to create a directory specific to that community. But for now, maybe it would be useful to have a general directory of any/all horse-related blogs. We have to find each other first, after all. Or something like that.

So… would it be useful?

The script is functional, people. I have the space and bandwidth to run it. All that’s stopping me from making it prettier than it is and perhaps a little more user-friendly is the question of whether it would be useful.

Would you, as a horsey blogger, add your site to a directory like this? Would you, as a horsey blog reader, use a site like this to find new blogs? Thoughts? Opinions? Reservations?

The Wide, Weird Web

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