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15Seconds Blog of the Week

Yesterday I read e-week's Scot Peterson's opinion piece titled Another Blog on the Fire. In it he stated, “If left to market forces, most blogs will live or die on their own. But get used to an era in which information becomes so ubiquitous it becomes almost useless.”

This got me thinking about ways in which the “traditional” media can provide exposure and add credibility and distinction to deserving blogs in the development community.

Therefore, 15Seconds is going to offer readers a Blog of the Week. The Blog of the Week will be displayed on 15Seconds.com, mentioned in the 15Seconds newsletter, and posted to this blog. Blogs for this honor are nominated by you and selected by us.

Potential Blogs of the Week should be updated relatively frequently with sound and credible development advice and honest opinions and feelings about developer-related issues and subjects.

Submit your nominations at http://aspnet.15seconds.com/blogs/bow.aspx, but feel free to ask questions and provide input in the comment section of this blog entry.

Thanks!

-Steve

Posted: Jun 03 2004, 12:14 PM by FifteenSeconds | with 2 comment(s)

Comments

Scott Galloway said:

Great idea, though blogs are seen as a great example of 'building community' they have tended to lead to a fragmentation of that same community - which is why I find sites like http://weblogs.asp.net and http://www.thedotnet.com so useful, they unify the content of multiple blogs on similar topics into easy to digest 'threads'.
15Seconds...now there's an intersting cookie, used to be one of my regular 'doin the rounds' sites in my ASP days (along with 4GuysFromRolla, ASPToday and 411ASP) but it's a bit unfocussed these days - is Wayne Berry still involved?
# June 3, 2004 1:00 PM

Steve K. said:

Scott,

Thanks!

The thing is not everyone has a blog on a blog community site or not everyone knows about all the blog community sites. Plus as these blog community sites grow, it's getting more and more difficult to go through and read all the blogs and comments, even with an aggregator.

The Blog of the Week is meant to acknowledge some of the better more active independent bloggers in the community based on user nominations.

Wayne Berry is no longer involved with the site. He left back in 1999.
# June 3, 2004 1:18 PM
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