April 24th, 2007 at 4:22 am
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Nice break down in a way that you could explain to your boss (or 10 year old, for that matter). Points one and two are the same, but for its importance, its worth repeating. Courtesy of Convesation Marketing.
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Interesting issue of scale here. Last submission round was about 1100 submissions, which required a huge number of man hours to sort through. How many will their next round accumulate? And is there a way to make sure they don’t miss any good blogs?
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Or a lazy appeal to the masses? I mean, come on. Deciding on whether a tech journalist gets into a tech conference based on a poll? Is that radical transparency?
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The Virginia Tech Massacre as a case study for citizen journalism. Pretty powerful stuff, and it all makes percfect sense. After all, who is going to be faster than “bloggers” at getting information out?
April 24th, 2007 at 9:40 am | Permalink
9Rules can impossibly list all the good blogs due to their exclusive membership. ;-)
April 24th, 2007 at 2:28 pm | Permalink
Well everybody said that we were losing exclusivity when we had the last Round, but now that we’ve shut down submissions, people are upset that they didn’t apply :) We get sliced by the double-edged sword a lot lol.
April 24th, 2007 at 4:49 pm | Permalink
Mike — damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
How about introducing a public vote for new submissions? Or, if you feel uncomfortable about a entirly vote deciding new submissions, maybe it can help choose the top 10 in each category, thereby whittling the job down for judges?
Cheers
t @ dji
April 24th, 2007 at 4:58 pm | Permalink
Tony that was something that we thought about a few months ago, another way to do the submission rounds through public voting, or recommendations, etc. For now we’ve shut them down for a few different reasons, one of which is that we’re happy with the size of our current 9rules membership and don’t see the need to grow any larger. Another reason is that we’re focused on the site and improving my.9rules so that the members we have can get even more exposure. The problem is that although having more members means having more content to showcase, each individual member gets less singular recognition, so we wanted to cap our membership and focus more on our current members and how we can do more to benefit them.
Mike