Comments on: Labourlist must not blog in a void

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:49:22 +0000

Interesting! Wonder how much keeping friends longer term will count though… Glad to see you provoked Guido in your comments form there too!

By: Matthew Cain

Matthew Cain — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:09:35 +0000

Newscounter has conducted an initial evaluation of Labourlist and has found that the site is much better than many have suggested: http://bacatu.blogspot.com/2009/02/labourlist-on-course-to-be-top.html

By: Derek Draper

Derek Draper — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:54:42 +0000

matGb

you’re wrong mate. they are approaching us

i am not setting up a site for 60 bloggers but for 60 million punters

By: MatGB

MatGB — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:30:38 +0000

Derek, I’m not actually being negative. Constructive criticism in a public forum is a good thing–I think the idea behind blogging is useful, and so I’ll give contructive remarks when I can.

If I wanted to just attack, I can and would, for a soft launch the site looked and felt like it was in pre-alpha mode, yes, it’s improving, but some of the basics, including getting some contributors on board (like for example Jon) who both know what they’re doing and are established enough to know the common early mistakes.

The permalinks have improved significantly since I made my first comment, which is good–I really recommend you specifically invite a few bloggers who really know what they’re doing, Andrew at B4L or Unity at Ministry of Truth are both great, hoping they’ll approach you simply won’t work.

By: Derek Draper

Derek Draper — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:21:59 +0000

matGB

ummmm… we are 48 hours old. we are adding cont. all the time. some will be st. bloggers, some not

why are some people so -ve?!?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:06:16 +0000

@Derek Draper:
No clue. I haven’t asked, and I haven’t been rejected! But the comment might not actually have been referring to me at all.

By: MatGB

MatGB — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:04:46 +0000

That’s true Steffan–one of the reasons Liberal Conspiracy has been a massive success is because Sunny brought in a lot of top name bloggers, some underrated midlisters and combined it with non-bloggers from a variety of organisations. Each of the bloggers brought in some of their own traffic, and the names also brought in a bit, combining that together gave us a very heavy hitting blog very quickly–even if it does mean we spend a lot of time arguing with each other in the comments.

No established bloggers as contributors means no established traffic and fewer immediate inline links. Plus you don’t have the experience of dealing with common problems that get repeated by most new bloggers when they start out.

By: Derek Draper

Derek Draper — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:58:23 +0000

what on earth are you talking about?!? anyone who wants to be a contributor can ask – in the past 48 hours people have and NOT A SINGLE ONE has been turned away. didn’t you see this?
http://www.labourlist.org/you_-_email_us_if_you_want_to_post
also we urge people to post in our daily e-mails. Honestly…