On April 5, 2005 I published the first article on this blog. Today, almost 700 articles later, I ask myself: what should I do with the blog? And for this, I would love to have your opinion. Let’s see the options I see for the moment:
1. I can go on and do nothing different.
2. I can invite about 5 to 10 people to write and split the task.
3. I can freeze it and leave it there as just another place in space.
4. I can change the tone to gossip, porn or politics.
5. I can change the content and move it to any other type.
6. I can print everything written in a book and end the topic.
7. I can turn it into a site instead of a blog.
8. I can donate it to a person who wants to continue it.
9. I can destroy it and wipe it off the map.
10. I can forget about it for a while and come back next year.
11. All of the above.
12. None of the above.
13. A combination of one or more of the above.
14. Forget all of the above and listen to or read new options.
The blog receives about 2,500 to 3,500 visits every day, with some extraordinary days of up to 10,000 visits in 24 hours. The accumulated content already makes it a place where you can spend some time discovering ideas, proposals, awkwardness, emotions, nonsense, reactions and everything that has occurred to me to write, as well as some relevant participations in other people’s articles and comments.
That is to say, it seems to have some value and some degree of interest for a significant number of readers who, in addition, come from many and very diverse parts of the world. Therefore, the option of destruction is one that I find difficult to handle as an avenue for serious consideration. However, just as this suicidal option exists, I believe that other very interesting options should be considered, such as the one that would encourage greater participation.
What is certain, however, is that the current format may already be losing its validity and therefore, it could be asking for a renewal, a reinvention and a redesign, from its conceptual proposal and content, to the resources it presents and shares with its visitors.
All your ideas in this regard will be more than welcome. You can share your thoughts in the comments that the blog allows, or you can do it to my email, jorge.oller@tribu.co.cr, we often prefer more private and direct ways.
I am open and willing to evolve the blog or do something else with it so that we can move forward in positive mutation. The journey has been a lot of fun, and personally, an experience I would repeat. However, it is worth saying that I feel that a more participatory and more inclusive model is needed.
So I listen and I am attentive. What’s to come has to be better, more focused and more relational, possibly even more transparent, open, intimate and connective. Equally, with more vision, sound and movement, so it may also require a new platform or interactive solution.
I’m all eyes, I’m all ears.
A hug!
