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FloridaBloggers.Org’s intention is to be a giant directory of, not surprisingly, Florida bloggers.
* List all Blogs by Title, Author, Location (City/County), Category (politics, technology, business, hyper-local, sports, etc) and Google PR, Alexa… something like that. Thus you could quickly find all blogs in Osceola, or Fort Lauderdale and sort them by most popular, etc. Or you could just list all the political blogs in Florida. Would be a great resource for traditional old-school media to find sources to steal quote from.
* Automatically hide blogs that haven’t posted in a set amount of time (defunct)… maybe 90 days, and then eventually delete blogs after a set amount of time… 6 months maybe. Thus, it is only fresh and relevant blogs.
* A simple form to submit a blog to be listed. Unlike Technorati, there would be no “ownership” of blogs. (see our guidelines).
* Pull in aggregated linked titles (possibly the first few lines of text … 50 words or so) of the recent posts of each blog on various “landing pages”… i.e. Technology, Sports… These would not be nofollow links, so I think blog owners would like and appreciate the traffic. Also, they would not be archived beyond a certain date (a few weeks or so) so we would never *profit* off their work.. .but instead hopefully be helping them by promoting their work.
* Since podcasts are a really a type of blog, we could easily just include a format column to the listing… Format: Blog, Newspaper, Podcast (Audio), Podcast (Video), Microblog, etc…
Why did I set up FloridaBloggers.Org? As to my motivation, I found myself using 10 different sources to try and gather info just on Brevard area bloggers (Twitter, Technorati (ugh!), and more) and found it difficult and outdated mostly.
It will also be a very easy way for you to keep track of new blogs in your area. As a big believer in community and the hyper-local future of the web, I feel FloridaBloggers.Org will make an impact in this area the most. You can subscribe to RSS feeds for blogs just in your area. As new ones are listed, you’ll automatically be notified and you can then go visit those blogs, subscribe to them, and meetup with those in your area. As more people come online and become participants and publishers (not just users), this will be a great way to invite them into your existing communities.
Of course, you can also subscribe to larger feeds of categories (all tech blogs in Florida), or smaller subsets of blogs (all medical-related blogs in Miami).
We will not be publishing feeds of the posts themselves, as we want blog owners to get the primary benefit of their own content. Although we will show excerpts from the last few posts here (eventually) to give people an idea of the content of a blog, we will not be archiving or republishing that information via a feed.