December 30, 2000

  • More Faces to Xanga



    Along with Genius (Biz), John, Brendan, Janet, and Dan appear to be among the founders of the Xanga community. John's weblog is truly instructional and highly informational. For instance, here's his views on the dynamics of a good weblog:



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    Found an interesting article on how to use Blogs to drive Community Development. Paraphrasing the author's recommendations:







    • Encourage your members to start their own Weblogs.

    • Group those Weblogs together.

    • Weblogs distribute the task of digging up links over hundreds or thousands of minds and satisfy the need to understand other people’s personalities and tastes.

    • Market those Webloggers as WebScouts.

    • On your homepage, run a meta-Weblog that summarizes and ranks your users’ own blogs.

    • To distance your Weblog service from the low-rent Tripod/Geocities stigma, hire real Web designers to produce dozens of truly impressive templates to which your members have exclusive access.



    I think there's more to Community and Blogging than these bullet points, but this is a good start.



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    So why so low-key? Perhaps, he doesn't want to steal eProps from the member community! ??



    BTW, it appears that Xanga went public around Nov. 5, 2000--the dates when John's and Dan's weblogs claim "firsts".



    Also, membership climbed from approx. 1595 to 1734 from 12/28 to 12/29 (circa 1700 EST) --which amounts to a one day increase of 9%!

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