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Bloggercamp and a Possible Change of Direction?
I’ve been pitching a fit here lately. When I initially chose bloggercamp.com as my domain name I had the intention of turning this into a community based website. I’m back at square one for this and I’m basically looking for some input/feedback. For, you guessed it, bloggers. Here is the intial idea I had for bloggercamp.com:
Bloggercamp.com the community resource for bloggers.
Users of the website would contribute their own cms’s, themes, templates, plugins, hacks, ideas, secrets, and more in a community based setting for not just WordPress but all blogging platforms(even custom ones). With ratings for all the above contribution to be dolled out by the users themselves. The site would include forums for help, chat, advice, and other web based offerings.
Why I might still do this:
I’ve yearned to run a community based website for several years, ever since I was an, albeit limited, admin at deviantart.com. Statichavoc.deviantart.com if you’re curious.
I love the interaction that community based websites have, the good, the bad, the ups the downs. It’s really an ideal situation because of the feedback that a website of that proportion retains.
I would still retain a blog for not just WordPress but for all blogging platforms etc, and I am entertaining the idea of user submissions for stories (a la digg style) but with more administrative control.
Suggestions?
It might take some money(outsourcing of coding) and a lot of time, but if I can pull it off I think I’d have a lot more fun running that type of website than bloggercamp in its current status.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions for this type of format for bloggers?
WordPress.com November Wrap Up and One Troubling Stat
WordPress.com has posted some interesting stats at WordPress.com.
I find one stat pretty troubling…
“416 million pageviews on WordPress.com, and another 169 million on self-hosted blogs. (585 million pageviews total.)”
Not the 416 million, but the 169 of “self-hosted blogs“… just how do they track this? If it’s through some sort of reporting tool within the WP software once installed, then that is, personally, scary to me. Just something to keep in mind.
