Following up on my post yesterday, on lesser-known bloggers, I’ve had quite a few comments come my way, some via the blog, some via e-mail, some face-to-face. I liked Cornelius’s suggestion the most:
You could pick one day per week/month/year and review one or more new blogs that you find noteworthy and under-appreciated on that day. Get the bloggers mentioned to write similar posts and have everyone use the same technorati tag; something like “LongTailTuesdays†or a similar catchphrase.
Something about the suggestion made me feel it would have more “legs” than a chain-letter or “list of five” approach, that a tag-based ritual would somehow be more sustainable.
So what I thought we’d do is the following:
Every now and then, choose a blog that, in your opinion, doesn’t get the attention it deserves. Introduce it to your community. Keep the intro short. Tag it NewTailBlog.
How often should you do it? Up to you. No rules.
Which blogs should you pick? Up to you. No rules.
Let the tags do their work. Let the blogosphere do its work.
And see what happens.