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Why Blogs Need To Be Social

gigaom.com — Earlier this week, San Francisco-based web publishing software company Six Apart released the newest version of its flagship product, Moveable Type, and pushed the blogging community into taking the first step toward a very social future.

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  • mikesbaker, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3oh my god I think I just read an ad.

    this is tantamount to lipstick on a pig. if you have good content you have a good blog. if you have bad content no amount of of interactive ***** will make it worth reading. but that is not to stop you from getting a social media strategist (paid spammer) to get your worthless blog onto the front page of digg.
  • Atomic1fire, on 08/16/2008, -0/+2If you have good content, people will make comments on it, and discuss it.
    Discussions create interactivity, because people find the need to discuss the content, and praise it or argue about it.
  • BXRWXR, on 08/16/2008, -1/+3Actually, they should invent something that produces less blogs, not more.
  • Atomic1fire, on 08/17/2008, -0/+1except a conversation without a topic is no conversation at all.
    Blogs should be about content and topics first, try to make a interactive website without something to talk about, and no one will join it.
    Blogs should stick to the content, then the connections and discussions centered around it not the other way around.

    Blog: somebody posts something interesting on a daily basis, people talk about it.

    Forum: someone post something interesting, people talk about it, but the discussion is
    more of a conversation, and anyone is free to create a topic.

    chatroom: the topic is whatever the people are currently discussing, and then whatever else comes up.

    Its much harder to combine all 3 successfully, because you need content first
  • mikesbaker, on 08/16/2008, -0/+1its the same junk as a normal blog just rearranged
  • denisrs, on 08/16/2008, -0/+0i do agree with above... blogs should always be around content. as long as all the new MT features will be around posts good.... but if we are going to see another bunch of fb clones... well... crap.

    btw, this digg post should point here... http://www.movabletype.com/blog/2008/08/movable-ty ...
  • smelltheflowers, on 08/15/2008, -1/+1This is the only way to GO!

    From monologue to dialogue.

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