Comments on: Some changes on the way (+ suggestions wanted)

By: doctorvee

doctorvee — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:06:34 +0000

I’m tempted to call the new home ‘Scotviews’, but something about that doesn’t quite sit right to me. I’m not sure about Blogging Jocks at all!

I quite like the Scotviews idea because the SBR — despite its name — isn’t designed to be just about blogs. It can be about forums, podcasts, YouTube, whatever else out there. But as I said, ‘Scotviews’ doesn’t quite sound right to me…

Another idea for a name that I had was ‘Scottish Soapbox’, but that might be a bit too cheesy. I reckon it would make a good slogan though!

By: The Basa

The Basa — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:03:29 +0000

How about calling it BloggingJocks.com – and it’s available.

By: Roger Thomas

Roger Thomas — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:09:51 +0000

A visit to the round up is now definitely a Sunday must. I’ll it seems fine, though I have never used wordpress so not sure what the problems are. I will have to have think.

By: Grant Thoms

Grant Thoms — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 22:06:25 +0000

Looks like there is a consensus breaking out that would allow (1) regularity, (2) consistency, (3) more variety.

How about Sundays are political roundups, Wednesdays are personal views rounds ups, Fridays are something else and so on. More people would visit and chances are a bit of cross-fertilisation of ideas/comments.

I’d be loathe to change from the format you have just now. Although a daily election round up would be great for us political anoraks. I dare say you could find a roster of bloggers to cover each day from say close of nominations on 11 April to 3 May to cover daily events?

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 18:26:00 +0000

I like the political focus, but think it’s a format that could be built on to cover other areas too. wrt. name, perhaps “Scotviews”, “Scotnews”, or some variation, or embrace the acronym, ‘SBR’, or ‘SBlogs’?

An aggregator is something I’d like to see for Scottish Blogs, provided contributors tag them carefully, so that political posts get picked up but their pet goldfish tribulations don’t.

Specials are a great idea, as is the suggestions above for bringing in a bit more non-political content. Akin to the (in your best Trevor McDonald voice) ‘and finally…’ news item.

A submission form? Might make folk feel a little less self-concious to e-mail in links to their own posts!