As you know, I have been experimenting with having more featured bloggers (both regular and occasional) here. This decision was triggered by the fact that I haven’t been able to blog as much or as widely as I used to, but the truth is that it’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a very long time. The conversation has been what has interested me. My main concern was whether I could pull off a group blog in a way that would maintain the voice, focus, and quality that I strive for without more effort than I can sustain.
From my perspective, the experiment has been an unqualified success. Phil Hill has been a particularly prolific contributor, burning up the blog with posts that provide the kind of analysis and raise the kind of questions that are in what I believe is the best spirit of what e-Literate has always strived for. The other writers—Jim Farmer, Audrey Watters, David White, and Kim Thanos—have provided a wonderful, rich, and well-rounded array of complementary insights and perspectives. I am thrilled. A couple of you have told me that you only read my pieces and skip over the other bloggers. Let me be clear: You are making a mistake. Some of the best writing ever to grace the pages of e-Literate is being published right now, and it’s not coming from me.
And so today I am announcing that the experiment has ended. I am making the blog officially and permanently a collective endeavor. If you look around the site, you will see changes in the branding that de-emphasize me and positioning e-Literate as a group publication. (The last piece will be adding full-page bios for the other authors, which I will do as they become available to me.) I expect to bring on board a few more regular bloggers and more occasional guests. And I am going to start experimenting with themes that I invite the bloggers, here, and elsewhere, to discuss with each other. I want e-Literate to be a stone thrown in the pond. I want it to create ripples of conversation about topics that are important to us.
Fantastic experiment and great success! I’m reading now instead of watching Patriots! Thanks for putting such a great team together!
I’ve learned a great deal following this conversation, but I’ve been particularly glad that it’s been so inclusive of multiple different positions: legal, financial, corporate, technical, educational and philosophical. Unusual mix, much appreciated.
The addition of additional voices has been great. Compliments on this evolution.