As for our ‘team blog’, well I agree that we don’t really work much as a team, and it’s especially difficult when not all the members of the blog watch the same shows, and/or at the same time. I can only blame myself for not dragging them enough to participate in meaty discussions in the community.

I pride myself in not recruiting MOAR members in our blog, knowing well that recruiting members for a blog that doesn’t really know what direction it wants to take the blog to [yet] would be more or less disastrous. And I think I’d rather recruit a member who’s a real life acquaintance or at the very least, someone I’m comfortable with discussing about animes and the blogging community with, and I don’t think a mere recruitment drive will make me find those people. So yeah, there are other ways to increase the blog’s MANA, and it mostly happens with GATTAIs with other bloggers.

Well, as for Team Blue’s first Round Robin, Impz and lelangir have a diversified entry for best post… So far.

@Ryan A: The main issue is that people usually do not think through very carefully why they want a team blog. They assume everything will go fine. Everything generally does not work out well. The world is built that way.

@Baka: Really? I find that it defeats the whole purpose of having a team blog in the first place.

@Dorian: You make an interesting point because it is perhaps true that the bloggers that are active in this blog will usually not mix together. I mean, can you imagine me and Calawain agreeing on anything. Or perhaps Crusader and me? (well, that likelihood is higher since he likes shoujo). That said, we have little reason to collaborate unless there is something that everyone across their genre can contribute. So, I guess that is why that there is little synthesis on the blog because it is primarily an episodic summary blog where bloggers are very different with very different target audiences.

The internal RR sounds fun but we got to make a topic easy for people to get in. Maybe we should have that as a weekly thing but everyone is busy at work as it is already.

@Gordon: Very much so.

@Nazi: I can’t deny that lelangir’s idea of a team blog is probably one for the purists but one that is highly idealistic and rather impossible for the most of us. I believe a team blog’s basic concept is to provide differing views on differing topics, one that is a synthesis of different ideas on a single site (aka an aggregator). I don’t expect a lot to agree with me but I think that as long as a team blog manages to create different personalities that is visible to the readers, it will not be that bad after all.

I do not think it’s meaningless, but more like an avenue to write something different or perhaps challenge oneself in the form of internal competition in a team. There are some major benefits to team blogging for sure, but the pitfalls are great too.

*ponders on the words*

I think it’d be awesome to see some more real team blogs, and I’d love to try it myself, if I could find someone to bounce ideas back and forth between until we get a good discussion on something going. But, of course, that takes a lot more time, effort, and coordination than just letting your mind spill out into a post. So I can see why there aren’t many blogs out there like that.

Yes.