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What is blogworthy and what is decent content?

I though the two terms above are somewhat related to each other so I’d like to discuss them here. The Ca t asks what makes an issue, news or topic blogworthy? This was in response to her plea to help spread Pyro’s case. I’d like to take the stand of some anonymous blogger and venture an answer or two to The Cat’s question:

  • First, blogworthiness is a relative term. One topic might be blogworthy for me but it might not be blogworthy to others.
  • Topic relevance. If I have a blog about travel, it would be a little awkward to have a post similar to what I did here. If the topic was relevant to travelling, it would make sense to post about it on the travel blog. Otherwise, it’s not blogworthy at all.
  • Too personal. Yup, some subjects are just too personal to blog about.
  • Blogger Relationships. A lot of bloggers have now formed close relationships on top of just being fellow bloggers online. Others become true friends, ninongs or ninangs, maybe even as significant others. Still the general populace of the blogosphere is still a little diluted in terms of personal relationships that a request like this might not strike favorably and be deemed not worth a space in their blog.

Then, there’s this “what’s in it for me” mentality everyone has (including me).

So, we move forward to what makes decent content and who determines if it’s decent or not? I was just chatting with Mikey and told him that one of the bloggers in their upcoming content network had mistaken me as the organizer (the entry has since then been edited). I wanted to correct the blogger right away but I thought the organizers of Dash Media were either doing this in stealth mode until I found the link of their email here.

First, let me clarify that I was never a part of Dash Media (and never will be, although we host the site on one of our servers). Second, I have been brewing a Filipino blog network of my own for the longest time (say December 2005?). We haven’t launched it yet due to logistical problems. In as far as marking it as the first Filipino blog network, Shai Coggins has already taken that spot a long time ago with her About Weblogs (which was consequently merged with b5media).

The vision of Dash Media is to become the 9rules of the Philippine Blogosphere, which is why they are filtering the good blogs from the not-so-decent ones. It’s like PinoyBlog for those who can write decent and have a decent design as well. I wouldn’t call it an elitist network as some of the western bloggers would refer to 9Rules but I’d like to stretch the discussion on where to draw the line between a decent blog and a noisy blog (noisy, being not decently written). You will notice I am using the word decent as this was the same term used by Dash Media to draw the line between a blog that’s worthy to be added to your Bloglines account and a blog that’s just plain boring and uninteresting.

I believe the regular Filipino blog reader is intelligent enough to know which is good content and which is not. This is the reason why most of us have RSS Feed readers — it serves as our personal filter to weed out the noise from the ever growing blogosphere. My other worry is that this could cause some sort division as to who has the better content.

Ok, I’ll stop here before people thinks this is another “my network versus your network” thing, which isn’t because I don’t have one yet. :D

Abe Olandres
Abe Olandres
Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.
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  7. Ron says:

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  8. The Ca t says:

    I am confused as to the word decent as used by the “network”. I may agree to the “memes” blog but hey I find blogs in the list which fall in the same category. Educate me.

    This is supposed to be a long comment but I decided to blog the rest.

    http://cathcath.com/?p=2480

  9. Marco the site guy says:

    @yuga

    We’re aware of the issues of elitism at hand when we first started the network. However, just as the concept of being “blogworthy” is relative, so is the concept of “elitism”.

    Bottomline is, we just want to provide people with quality content upfront in one place so they don’t have the need to scour the web for it. But if that’s elitism well then I guess we’re guilty.

    For the time being since this is the first batch the decision was based on the discretion of the Network owners. But rest assured we plan to democratize the process of approving blogs in the second batch. Expect things to unveil as we launch the site in the coming weeks.

  10. Abe Olandres says:

    @ Marco

    My problem must have been that there wasn’t any solid criteria layed out, the same reason a lot of westerners look at 9Rules as elitist was because it was done primarily on personal taste of the founders. How are they chosen, who chooses them, how to find the under-exposed, how to expose them, who are the readers of the network. Will the readers have to go thru the network to be able to read the blogs or you will just link to them (1st tier vs. 2nd tier)? These questions weren’t really answered in the emails you sent out.

    I used the RSS as my basis because it’s like aggregating blogs (you like) and sharing the OPML to the network readers.

    @ Mikey

    I just added that last line so that people wouldn’t mistake this post as such. That being said, I’d like to give props to your team. That’s a bold move considering there’s no business model to think of. Just a tip: expect to bleed some time and money on the project.

  11. Mikey says:

    Also, I’d like to emphasize that we shouldn’t even be thinking along the lines of “blog network war”.

    Another reason why we started Dash Media is to promote a tight community and foster cooperation in the local blogosphere.

    With that said, I’d like to say that we fully support your upcoming initiatives like we would expect from you and your readership :)

  12. Marco the site guy says:

    The real point of creating dash-media was to create a community for those underexposed bloggers who care more about creating good content as opposed to say driving traffic to their site regardless of whether it contained a bunch of meme’s.

    We were surprised with the overwhelming response we received from blogs all over the country (and even more surprisingly some blogs from other countries) that see us eye to eye with our goal of setting standards for the Filipino blogosphere.

    True enough the Filipino reader is intelligent enough (and it’s not because most of us use rss readers – rss does not equate to intelligence) and we at DashMedia are giving them excatly what they need, which is access to hidden but quality content.

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