The grid is fast approaching. It has been a pleasure to see the idea for grid blogging being mentioned and discussed across a variety of blogs, in different languages. Better still, has been the enthusiastic response and the intention to participate expressed by diverse quarters.
In the comments section of the initial invitation, there has been talk of the need for RSS-feed, trackback, etc. I must admit that I have made little (should I say no) progress in this direction. The first grid blog remains a rough and ready affair, technically speaking. Obviously, if anybody wants to set up something of this kind, they're more than welcome. For the time being I'm adding to this post a list of participants. I'll be renewing it on Dec. 1. and invite others to give some visibility to those taking part on the day. And if this sounds totally fuzzy, trust in the powers of emergence.
As a way of creating a distributed archive and for future reference of the material posted this coming monday, the idea proposed by Hal seems both simple and effective: add [grid::brand] to the title of each post. This way, they can be easily retrieved at a later date via search engine.
Here's a random list of those that expressed the intention to participate:
abstract dynamics
purse lip square jaw
glowlab
freegorifero
junk for code
things magazine
icon's blog
v-2
Dr. Menlo
conscientious
the chutry experiment
mediaburn
memefest
creativity machine
hypothemic
douglas rushkoff
sexveggie
something about nothing
empires of the mind
brett blog city
cup of chicha
funny face, I love you
ChapmanLogic
political graffiti
emergent kiwi
fuzzy blog
consumptive
city of sound
the corner
coachblog
submit response
life(?) of trillian
the left end of the dial
corporatePR
engage
canuckflack
beyond branding blog
reforming project management
synapse chronicles
concepts for a buntiful mind
technically rachel
If I left anybody out, my apologies and let me know. If you'd like to join in, leave a comment with your URL.
Abyssal Mind will attempt to take part in this interesting concept.
Posted by: Abyssal Mind at November 28, 2003 03:21 AM*cough* G3RM *cough* will hopefully have a last minute contribution...
Posted by: jand at November 28, 2003 03:57 AMI was not sure how I could keep my lit-themed blog in tune w/ the topic, but after some thinking, I know I can.
http://www.vestige.org will be participating.
Posted by: August at November 28, 2003 07:31 AM*please* keep it fuzzy. It's the fuzziness that makes it such a tasty idea.
Posted by: Jean at November 28, 2003 08:00 AMi suppose we can all come back to here to look at the branded blogs of each other?
Posted by: Buntifer Green at November 28, 2003 02:40 PMI created a topic exchang channel that I think will work well for this experiment:
http://topicexchange.com/t/grid_brand/
is both the url to view it and the url to ping in order to get listed on that page.
Ashley - if you are down it might be good to email this url out to everyone, it will make it a lot easier to track whats going on if people are pinging that channel.
Posted by: Abe at November 28, 2003 11:05 PMalso note that the topic exchange channel has its own rss feed:
topicexchange.com/t/grid_brand/rss
Posted by: Abe at November 28, 2003 11:10 PMI am down to do this. Let's do this hardcore. Blog culture must evolve past the point it is currently at if it wishes to survive. It is nearly passe.
Posted by: Paul Hindt at November 29, 2003 08:58 AMi'm in.
Posted by: tobo at November 30, 2003 01:53 AMThinking to take part from Brazil.
abraços,
Suzana (http://www.smartmobs.com/bloggers.html)
Posted by: Su at November 30, 2003 08:44 PMSounds cool. http://www.johndan.com/
Posted by: Johndan at November 30, 2003 11:16 PMposted from the states
Posted by: peregrinatio at December 2, 2003 03:10 AMI am new to the internet and I am surfing here and this is very interesting reading. I did a search in the search engines on "professional blog" and I found your web blog.
I am a Lawyer in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and thus my interest in searching for a professional blog on the WWW.
I just wanted to see how the rest of the world thinks and see what trends and technology are happening in the world. I also was interested in a blog for myself which might possibly lead to a blob for my law firm, you never know, that is if I can understand the technology of operating a blog. The different things discussed on a website found by searching for "professional blog" in the search engine is very amusing reading to this Halifax Lawyer.
Respectfully yours
B. J. Stephens, LL.B.