In The Blogging Crystal Ball, I See …
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March 13th, 2006 by Vince Chan ::
March 13th, 2006 by Vince Chan :: … that the most popular pro/am blogger or blog site has not been born yet! I also see that the blog will be in a non-english language with a potential audience of over 1 Billion. If this person chooses to monetize (or ever finds a way to do so), he (or she) could make Six Figure Blogging look like kindergarten?!?
[voiceover: this rant has been inspired by the many postings/comments about the results of the 2006 bloggies]
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One Response to “In The Blogging Crystal Ball, I See …”
I don’t see it, neccisarily, as a non English language site. I see it as a site that manages effective (and understandable) translation into multiple languages. In short, I’d wager the following:
English, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese (at least one dialect), Japanses, and - potentially - Korean.
It’s the “how” that’s the problem.
In all honesty, I don’t see it as a single blog, either. I see it as a very tight network that fits the following criteria:
1) Very good layout that is the same for all blogs
2) Layout allows some individuality for each blog
3) Blogs are well written, and dead-on on topic
4) Blogs include factual news stories, interspersed with op-ed, with the occasional seat-of-the-pants post
5) Monetization is subtle, but specific
6) (and this is the big one) Network is targetted to one. specific. niche. Blogs within network are micro-niche blogs.
7) (and this is the other big one) Target niche is globally valid.
8) Main network site/blog/page aggregates top content from micro-niche blogs. Rather than simple re-post, a small team (one or two or three) of editors re-writes the post, slightly. Same information, slightly different method of discourse.
The reason noone has managed this, yet? What major niche out there is both globally valid, plus able to support multiple micro-niche blogs that will last for an extended period of time (two+ years), and will support multiple daily updates on each blog?
…typing out all of that makes me wonder why I’m considering starting the first amateur blogging network.