Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Friday, March 02, 2007 1:19:00 AM
I have learned a great deal about blogging since I started this blog six months ago.
Republicans aren't good blog READERS and so it is difficult to get them to promote a blog with their readership. Without readership, bloggers eventually get tired of writing and fold up their blog. Democrats are different. They are avid readers, so avid that their blogs routinely support advertising.
I have tried to come up with a way to fix the problem of readership. What I think might work, and I am in the process of putting some time and effort into, is an index site where Republicans can go when they check their email to find out what is being written. Each day this index site would put together a set of links to other blogs which have written original essays, ideally with at least some original research, on issues of interest to Republicans in Colorado.
The links would have a one sentence descriptor of the article and the reader would be encouraged to go look at two of the links each day, in all, a five minute exercise.
A project of this nature needs to be neutral when it promotes blogs, though not so neutral that Democratic blogs could pass themselves as Republican. There would be periods around election time when the 11th Commandment would apply, and be enforced, but otherwise, almost anything reasonable would be allowed. The word "almost" was carefully chosen as I consider the acronym "RINO" to be unnecessarily divisive and demonstrative of an author who lacks the intellectual power to write a hard hitting essay without resorting to name calling. The quickest way for an essay or a blog to get ignored is for the author to fall into that bad habit.
I would expect to blog on the sit to model what I am looking for, but I would not ever blog on Republican persons or issues. Those who think I can't do that should review this blog. Neutral essays attacking the MSM or Democrats behaving badly are easy to write, and there is no shortage of material.
My purpose is to encourage bloggers to write honest critiques of Colorado Democrats and the MSM. They are getting a free ride from the press, and I want that to come to an end. It is unlikely to ever promote articles about Iraq, though it might well promote Presidential primary articles, especially if written from a Colorado perspective.
I registered the URL and signed up for a blogging service today. The URL is "thecoloradoindex.com," though it will probably not go active until Monday. It takes 48 hours to get mapped from the blogging service to the URL, and I need to design the site.
It should be an interesting project. Comments and suggestions are welcome.