Comments on: Yahoo IM Networking Group: Everyone’s Invited Including YOU

By: BlogLight.ning - The New Social Network Just for Bloggers!

BlogLight.ning - The New Social Network Just for Bloggers! — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 07:43:57 +0000

[…] have previously written about how people are your greatest resource. BlogLight.ning (pronounced Blog-Lightning) is the new social network which I can see becoming the […]

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 02:18:18 +0000

I am starting up a networking group of bloggers who help each other out, usually with a vote on a social site or a friendly link. By us all being on Yahoo IM (the same IM) it be simpler and everyone who joins will benefit.

This is for Diggs and things like that right?

The only worrisome part is that the social networks might start blacklisting anything that comes from the backscratcher network.

I am confused? Is this considered a bad thing? I thought that this proposed group would be people who stay in close contact with each other and tell each other within the group about various things such as asking for a Digg consideration, etc…

I don’t want to be part of something that will look bad in the blogosphere. As big as the blogosphere may be, its really a small world. I don’t think Matt has ill intentions here… but I do think careful planning should be made as well as the format be open to the general public.

A message board would be good for something like this. Yahoo groups, Google Groups, etc… or a PhpBB, SMF message board, etc.. would work. I think that would be better than a ’secret’ IM network…

I am sure they exist, but I think it would be more inviting to create a board or community type place where anyone and everyone within some kind of pre-approval screening process would be better.

Any thoughts on this?

By: Matt Jones

Matt Jones — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 22:16:33 +0000

Great Guys! Others have joined up too, I will be contacting everyone with each others IMs shortly. People are already having some great ideas. It’s more than just voting for each other, it’s amazing what a few bloggers can achieve when they put their heads together.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:43:24 +0000

Hey Matt,

Sounds like a lot of fun… You can count me in.

By: CristianR

CristianR — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:52:18 +0000

[blockquote]The only worrisome part is that the social networks might start blacklisting anything that comes from the backscratcher network.[/blockquote]

Then they shouldn’t find out about the network , should they ?

By: Johnny Fuery

Johnny Fuery — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 16:23:22 +0000

It is a great idea, Matt, but I think the implementation is a little unwieldy.

We really want a moderated mailing list, don’t we? How about instead of using Yahoo IM, you setup a moderated Yahoo Group with a daily digest?

Better yet, someone (looking in mirror) ought to setup a “backscratcher network”, where every clickthrough is recorded and given back to you somehow.

Hmm, I recall blogging about this months ago… let’s see… http://fuery.com/2007/02/27/digg-digg-clones-pagerank-and-wordpress-plugins/

So, your list of 30 bloggers (31… my yahoo IM is “jfuery”) would probably be interested in this, no?

The only worrisome part is that the social networks might start blacklisting anything that comes from the backscratcher network.

By: The Internet Experiment » Blog Archive » Social Bookmarking/Voting Site Group To Be Started. Everyone is invited.

Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:14:58 +0000

[…] Reddit, Stumble, etc). He is accepting bloggers into the network as of today. You can check out his post for more details on […]