Blogging & Discussion

There is a pretty cool bounty live on Cent now [here] asking about how users think blogging may work if implemented into Cent.

About 40 Centians have responded so far, with several open to the idea of adding blogging capability and in some cases basically aligned 100% with my personal vision for how blogging would work on Cent.

Of course there are several users who aren't so sure.

One comment by fellow Centian @hpearcem pretty much sums up the opinion of those not in total support of the idea: "Cent is more of a discussion platform and blogging is not."

That opinion is completely understandable. For many, blogging is associated with writing in a diary; a diary that is, of course, open to the whole world. And like diaries, no one usually writes on another person's blog. But there is one glaring uncommonly common exception: the comment section found beneath basically every single blog.

The reality though is that the comment section has been dead for a long time for most bloggers. So for all intents and purposes, blogging has not been a platform for discussion for most bloggers. That though is a bug, not a feature.

For a small minority, blogging has been used as a platform for discussion, but this has been true only for super notable bloggers for the most part like Fred Wilson on avc.com for example; not your typical average blogger.

I am one of those typical average bloggers. As a typical average blogger, when I see the discussion that takes place at avc.com I am stoked, but envious since I know that barring some sudden celebrity or a super time consuming not to mention costly SNS marketing blitz, my discussion-less blogging reality will inevitably persist.

Since I am in no way special or extraordinary, there must be others out there in a similar position who feel something similar and want to have open discussions on their blogs.

Until now though, as I've said, there just hasn't been an easy way to accomplish this. But now we have Cent, and as long as you have a couple bucks you can bring that discussion you've longed for to your blog posts on-demand.

On top of that, users have been creating mini-blog posts already - just click your username and look at your history.

Anyways, to summarize: Blogging is very much a platform for discussion, it's just been the case that the blogging platforms out there until now have been terrible at attracting and sustaining that discussion.

Pro tip: you can substitute 'blogging' for a number of other native digital actions too like vlogging or podcasting or...the list goes on.