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BlogOut & My Hopes On What Our Blogosphere Can Work Towards

Written by Ridzuan Ashim

Tuesday, 17 April 2007

Once again, The Digital Movement (the cool dudes who brought Nexus) is trying to bring about a more cohesive blogosphere by organizing a party/gathering/meetup targeted at bridging gaps between the various blogging communities here in SG. Be part of the fun by throwing in your ideas over at their wiki .

I shall leave the marketing to the many other bloggers who will gladly do that(I’ll do that on my other blogs haha). I really want to talk about what I hope our blogosphere can work towards…Singaporean Bloggers leading the way for the region perhaps?

I think there’s a lot that can be done via the blogosphere. It is definitely an evolving entity that has the potential to achieve much. At a glance, I’d like to just list the few areas:

Collaboration between blogging and non-blogging communities
Despite the large and increasing number of bloggers, there is still a large number of people and organizations that don’t blog. Worse, their lack of experience about blogging has even caused some to shun away from blogging. Events like BlogOut, hopefully, can be a bridge between these 2 groups of people. The fun, relaxed setting will definitely allow people to understand each other better. (And if it’s not the setting, it’ll probably be the booze)
Establishment of “Bloggers Code of Conduct” guidelines
After the Kathy Sierra incident died down, the calls for a code of conduct seems to have died down. Nevertheless, I think guidelines(not laws or policies, mind you) should be set so that people know how to react respectfully in certain cases. Already, it’s become unspoken rule that you should credit people for using their ideas or pictures and to link to their blogs if you’re referring to their articles…but with more people jumping on the Citizen Journalism bandwagon, how then do we try to ensure acceptable reporting? How should we respond when errors are reported? Certainly a lot to talk about.
Friendship, Tolerance & Acceptance(FTA) amongst bloggers and the community.
In my opinion, this would be the most important thing because it would be the basis by which the guidelines would work. Another reason why I say this is because increasingly i’ve witnessed squabbles between local bloggers with each flaming the other. This is sad because the beauty of the blogosphere is the diversity of opinions – meaning that people will disagree with you. And when they do, you should accept that they have a different opinion first and then engage in discussions to understand the basis for the other party’s opinion.

This is also relevant beyond the blogosphere. Companies and even our local government should start engaging the community and celebrating the diversity rather than throwing a flurry of laws and policies. It all begins by building friendships, tolerating difficult people and accepting differing opinions.

Read or add comments about this item.

No. 1 :

Ridz!!! Thanks for the grrreeeaaaattttt post!!! Looking forward to the big day! We're going to make a g8 team!! woot! Can't hardly wait!!!

Submitted by eStee • 2007-04-17 10:14:08

No. 2 :

For #1, I feel that even blogger and blogger should try to collaborate. Currently, most blogs you see are one man show, offering one person's point of view. I'm hoping there will be collaboration between bloggers to write a single blog with 1 objective

Submitted by DK • 2007-04-17 11:49:43

No. 3 :

LOL! Ridzuan, you've given FTA a new meaning. This is a great dream though. And many wonderful things happen because of a great dream. I truly that your dream would come true.

And I agree with DK: "even blogger and blogger should try to collaborate."

Submitted by ClappingTrees • 2007-04-17 12:17:24

No. 4 :

I'm still reading. Ha.

Submitted by z • 2007-04-17 23:40:33

No. 5 :

Sounds like a serious event. I always thought bloggers just want to have fun? :)

Submitted by Harro! • 2007-04-18 05:59:34

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