| |
|
I think htere were big plans for the Collective originally. The main Collective blog tended to be used as a 'headlines' section, made up of links to a huge variety of different news items.
It was a way of presenting information that the board as a whole might have wanted to discuss or expand on without having to start threads that nobody took up.
It worked for a short while. I guess people stopped posting to it (except for Rollo, who's been doing a sterling job - and yes, I have been reading it regularly) for a number of reasons. For me it was mainly a vague suspicion that nobody outside of the Collective was reading it, making it a pointless exercise. The other problem I saw was that it was visibly falling apart; the individual blogs that were supposed to be an integral part of that section of the site were either infrequently updated (big up to Kirk Nice and his "I've had enough, I'm leaving," strop) and, once the template was changed, no longer linked to from the main page. Add to that the never-working Harbin blog, the death of Flyboy's blog and the very odd way that Nick's never changed template with the rest of them.
What I liked about it originally was that it really did feel like a community, and one that was distinct from the Underground. I think the idea is still tenable. For what little it's worth, I've been meaning to start contributing to it again recently, just forgetting. |
|
|
