The interesting challenge for us in the progressive blogosphere is whether we can figure out a format to combine the best of our posts into a single structure that casual web browsers could access like a magazine. What would be needed is some kind of peer review to move the best posts from individual sites into a collective web effort, categorized by issue area, and posted in a user-friendly form. There are some collective blogs out there, but what is needed is a more serious editing function and user-friendly formatting to make it easy to access. If we could even do with progressive blog posting what Google News has done with mainstream papers, it would make web writing far more accessible.
And however much we might trash mainstream media, they spend a lot of time figuring out how to get the product into the hands of consumers. That is not a skill to be looked down upon.
The above was written by Nathan Newman. This new weblog is a first attempt at realising his vision, though somewhat differently from what he intended (for now). What I intend to do
and will invite others to join me in, is to create a daily “Best of the Progressive Blogosphere” linklist. Each entry will consist of a single paragraph from the story linked to and a link to the story. That’s all. There won’t be any commentary, no expounding on what’s happening in the world, no big thesises. Just links to the progressive blogposts you need to read today.