So I have the problem that when I blog, I might be doing it on
OpenSolaris, soccer coaching, science fiction, etc.
While that is good in that it shows I have interests outside of work, it
creates many threads of
conversation which it can be hard to navigate through.
I just recently learned that for the blog feeds for projects and
communities, you could differentiate based
on category. So, for the NFS community, I could tell it to only pull my
NFS blog entries and not my
science fiction blog entries.
I think that some people are also confused about this and want to focus
attention just to the specific
project. Instead of learning how to aggregate on a web page or to
redistribute a feed (like planet.opensolaris.org),
they focus in on a group blog.
I wouldn't call this organized marketing, I'd liken it more to
grassroots or guerrilla marketing. The difference
being that it isn't the marketing department driving some agenda, it is
simply a development group pushing
awareness of their own work on the world. I'd also argue that most
corporate based blogging falls under this
category. And most open source developers are probably just as proud to
get their "products" out in the open.
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