The Guardian's White Knuckle Blogging Ride
Jeff Jarvis links to a fascinating debrief from the Guardian's "white knuckle ride" after the first week of their CommentIsFree blog. Some candid (and well written hehe) excerpts :
"The launch of our new comment blog was a white-knuckle ride"
"It's been like riding a bucking bronco when you've never been on a horse before."
"Instead of tight copy-editing - back and forth to writers, asking them to elaborate arguments, change introductions, and cut copy to fit - we're checking mainly just for libel."
"The immediacy and speed of the blog was one shock: it so happened that the day we launched was a day of high drama in Jericho. Our first bloggers were on within the first hour of the news breaking and we had five pieces of comment on events there before the paper's comment pages went to press that night."
"We were slightly amazed by the sheer number of people who blogged in the first four days: by Friday morning 104 contributors had posted 212 pieces and we had more than 800 comments from readers on the site. So much for our fear before launch that no one would turn up."
"The randomness, that sense of never quite knowing who's going to post when and what, is both the joy of the new site and slightly scary."
"The launch of our new comment blog was a white-knuckle ride"
"It's been like riding a bucking bronco when you've never been on a horse before."
"Instead of tight copy-editing - back and forth to writers, asking them to elaborate arguments, change introductions, and cut copy to fit - we're checking mainly just for libel."
"The immediacy and speed of the blog was one shock: it so happened that the day we launched was a day of high drama in Jericho. Our first bloggers were on within the first hour of the news breaking and we had five pieces of comment on events there before the paper's comment pages went to press that night."
"We were slightly amazed by the sheer number of people who blogged in the first four days: by Friday morning 104 contributors had posted 212 pieces and we had more than 800 comments from readers on the site. So much for our fear before launch that no one would turn up."
"The randomness, that sense of never quite knowing who's going to post when and what, is both the joy of the new site and slightly scary."
posted by redbarren at 11:01 AM
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