clubs and contests do not a community make, newstaff, assemble! Options

[hi-C]

I've been (and others) have been thinking about this for a while:

Would anyone like to help revive cB News?

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Also, related to this, would anyone be interested in creating a cB music magazine? It would be similar to cB News with different articles and reviews and such, and maybe a photography section if someone goes to a concert and takes pictures and stuff.

[*mipadi*]

My only chief concern is allowing anyone to contribute to a community blog, without any oversight, might lead to a free-for-all regarding content. If the posts are disjointed, poorly written, or lack focus, the entire quality of the blog might decline to the point where it is unreadable. So on the one hand I'm against oversight, but on the other hand, I feel that there either needs to be a core team of writers/contributors, or there needs to be at least some editorial oversight.

My other issue is focus. I find that most of the blogs I follow regularly have some sort of overarching theme. For example, as a computer science student and budding software engineer, most of my blogs most-read blogs revolve around programming topics, or follow the development of specific software modules—or at least discuss these themes in some tangential way. I think that a CB community blog would be most successful if we at least had some sort of theme or goal in mind in publishing it—otherwise it's just a mismash of topics that might be best left to our own personal blogs (speaking of, mine hasn't been updated in months...).

Of course, I do read a few personal blogs (namely NSLog(); and The Dilbert Blog, if anyone's interested)—but truth be told, I don't visit them nearly as often as I do blogs with a focused theme.