Comments on: Adaptive blogs - Follow the conversation

By: frankp

frankp — Fri, 28 Oct 2005 15:00:05 +0000

more on domain namin… there are various views on this - with pros and cons all over the gaf.

Seth Godin blogged an interesting enough related article on his blog.

By: Ed Byrne

Ed Byrne — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 19:01:30 +0000

On the domain naming issue - the other side to that coin is that if you pick to generic a name, people won’t know what you do, especially for a start-up blog, when the name won’t have any recognition.

pkellyPR tell’s me it’s PR site - and that’s what I find when I browse it. Same for tomrafteryIT. There’s two blogs that in the name let me know what they do.

True, you might change career, but then you’d have a different readership and blog anyway - as those that read your PR insights might have no interest in your new career as an air baloonist or sub-mariner!

By: Piaras

Piaras — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:10:05 +0000

There are a number of big companies that are listening, but relatively few are responding like on Tom’s site.

That’s great to see by the way.

By: frankp

frankp — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:04:17 +0000

I was talking to Tom R yesterday about how a lot of start ups now are using blogs and rss to stay in touch with their potential userbase and adapt as quickly as possible.

Witness Flock and AdGenta communicating on Tom’s Site, or Ning discussing User Agreement on BifSniff.com.

These companies obviously have ’searched and subscribed’ to keep a close eye on what people are saying about them, and have a policy of responding and where possible adapting.

I will be really curious to see if this listening/responding ethos is carried through by such companies beyond start up phase…

By: Emmet

Emmet — Tue, 25 Oct 2005 22:37:27 +0000

I think you make a good point about the danger of blogs being too self-absorbed. I doubt we would ever see the world and his dog get blogging if the existing content didn’t reach out at some point and engage those beyond the typical blogger profile - there just wouldn’t be any relevancy to the medium for them.

But yes, blogs are another great example of adaptive systems. They are constantly in flux, always being tweaked to become something more developed, and are engaged in a continuous and open feedback loop with their audience. And a decent blogging engine enables changes to be made through the use of templates, plugins, etc. The nature of what a blog is used for can change completely according to the input of so many signals.

Maybe that’s why there’s always so much to blog about blogging