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Whew, today we hit our 128th blogger on Chattablogs. Hard to believe. Some of those are inactive and I need to go thin the herd a bit, but nonetheless I'm pretty amazed. All told we top out around 220 blogs total across all of the domains, and I'd estimate around 200 of them are active, which is pretty crazy.
I keep getting requests from people saying they love the idea and would move their blog if I'd just get a blog portal turned on in their city. Well, I'd love to, but it's just a big fat raging issue of time. We're working on a couple more additions to the team and hopefully at that point there will be some resources to allocate to small-return projects like Terrablogs. Only time will tell.
On another note we're 6 comments away from the 2,000 comment on my blog. This is also my 406th post, which is kinda amazing. My kids will have lotso stuff to make fun of me for 20 years from now.
By the way, it's 'bout time I shoot out some serious props to my boys over at Smoothblend. Mad skillz.
Josiah Q. Roe | By Josiah Roe | 05:24 PM
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well, as much as i'd like to be the 2000th comment, i can't wait long enough to say that JRo rocks. thanks for the blog setups and the friendly neighborhood (and not-so-neighborhood) service.
Posted by: joy at February 3, 2004 05:47 PM
2000. A nice, round, even number. I too am even and sort of round.
Posted by: mesh at February 3, 2004 10:19 PM
Have you thought about consolidating the various city blogs into one massive blog - even under the heading of chattablogs? It seems like it would lower your costs, and could increase demand because then you wouldn't have to worry about niche marketing the domain name to the city. After all, isn't one neat aspect of blogging is that it creates a trans-regional community? Like you pointed out - we end up reading the blogs of people in Europe, New YOrk, Calfironia, or even Iraq, and it feels like they're close to us - even closer than some people we see and talk to all the time.
Because I was thinking that from your perspective, part of what generates the demand is scale. Once you get the blogs up to a certain size, that might make it interesting enough for more people to join. And at 200, you might be closing in on that point.
Posted by: scott cunningham at February 4, 2004 11:14 AM
Transregionality is a good thing, but I think the problem here is that scale eventually will become a bad thing. Already it's reached the point where I couldn't follow all the Chattabloggers' posts. It would be unfortunate if this thing grew so big that it became like Blogspot and everyone became completely anonymous.
Posted by: Evan Donovan at February 4, 2004 05:15 PM
Another possibility would be to have the city sites but then have a parent site (terrablogs.com) where it is updated with listings of posts from all the child sites (such as chattablogs.com).
Posted by: John at February 4, 2004 10:44 PM
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