What exactly is “Open Blogging” anyway?  We weren’t sure at first actually, it was just an idea that our Creative Director stumbled upon while pondering ideas in the shower one evening (no kidding).  An “Open” or “Community” Blog allows its members to post relevant content for free, in an attempt to build an interesting community resource, that is our definition, anyway.

From there it was immediately thrown out because of the lack of control such an arrangement poses, and the fact that it’s probably been done a thousand times.  Plus, how many people would actually be interested in doing such a thing?  It seems as if the biggest majority of internet goers are doing their own thing these days and staying away from the regular scheme of big name websites and overrun ideas.  After about seven minutes of throwing the idea out completely, research had commenced.  An all out “dig the search engines in hopes of not finding a similar idea so we can have an extra little niche in the internet world before its too late and theres nothing we can do about it,” kind of search.

Well after doing some research, which you can do as well, around search engines and other blogs- it seemed that there was no significant setup for community/website members to login and write blog entries.  Wikipedia was about the closest match we could find, every other site was hogging up their precious space by content provided by the same group of authors, almost a little boring!

So anyhow, we decided to take a stab at it and see what we can brew up here.  As of May 10, 2008, about two weeks after the development started, we’re now sorting out several bugs and issues with the system.  Currently, users are available to register and start posting articles, which we encourage of course.  The content is minimal for now until we launch our advertising campaign, if all goes well, in mid June to early July.  Until then, we are accepting members to help us build up some early content and test the waters and find out what we can and can’t do.  And as a side note, we are very impressed with everything Wordpress is capable of and the site is proudly powered by it.

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