Instead of publishing blogs in isolation, why don’t we form blogging collectives and publish all sorts of magazines?

@kjz Group blogs were very common 20 years ago. I ran one for a while. It might be time for them to stage a comeback…

@adders I do like this idea. For all the talk of community, publishing to your own blog is by definition a solitary activity. Be great to get feedback, focus on themes etc.

[Imagines the arguments over platform and design of any collective I was involved in.]​

@tracydurnell Well, read these on blogging and individualism and “personal responsibility”. There’s something in this, which hadn’t occurred to me in 16 years of blogging (which I will of course blog about).

If I had the network/energy I would of course set one up 😄

@kjz interesting, thank you! The multi-author blogs I read back in the day centered on the owner -- a business not a collective. (E.g. Design*Sponge couldn't exist without Grace Bonney, A Beautiful Mess is still around but owned by Emma and Elsie.) Today, Flaming Hydra is the closest I know?

@tracydurnell yeah, hard to even conceive of one. theluddite.org maybe? Interesting (for me, anyway) to think that the whole “you should blog” idea has an element of tech individualism in it. Wonder what the history of it is.

@tracydurnell (also, apologies if my original response seemed a bit rude ­– just realised leaving the “I” out of “I read” makes it sound like an instruction!)

@kjz (I didn't take it to be rude, also I totally do that all the time 😄)

@kjz Wrangling writers to collab on an unpaid project and agree on an editorial vision is probably more work than most hobbyists are interested in. A friend coedited a literary SF mag and even with only one other editor still couldn't publish all the stories she wanted.

@tracydurnell I can only imagine. Perhaps something looser than a magazine. Just a group of “like minded” bloggers with some sort of manifesto. No central editor. Perhaps this is just nonsense 🤣