I've been urged to start a blog to post the chat logs of my #rpgnet Q&A sessions. (That, and my reviews, presumably.) I'm just wondering how much interest there would be in such a thing, and if so, what else you'd like to see me post there.

Quote from: Dan Davenport;570343I've been urged to start a blog to post the chat logs of my #rpgnet Q&A sessions. (That, and my reviews, presumably.) I'm just wondering how much interest there would be in such a thing, and if so, what else you'd like to see me post there.

I think I would be interested but with the following in mind:

Just posting the chatlog would look kind of messy. I suggest posting highlights with commentary to give it a frame and help contextualize the discussion for the reader. Maybe provide a link to the full log.

I am much more interested in the review and other things along those lines. You may want to consider using the chats for springboards to full length articles. For instance, writing about a controversy or trend that comes up in the chat. Or if you have guests you could do a "designer profile/ q&a" for the blog that compliments the chat log.

I think chat log is fine, but I really would like to see that built into something that will keep me coming back every day.

Likewise, I'm tuned in to about a dozen personal interest blogs and the same again in local, national, and international newsfeeds, all top quality, plus seven industry work related sources, to say nothing of forums. Like most people my attention is spread pretty thin these days, it would be more interesting to see some value-added commentary than bare logs.

I'd read it. Throw in your reviews!

Yes! Excerpts from chat logs + reviews + opinions would be excellent. It would be bookmarked good sir.

Of all the rpg reviewers ive heard of since joining rpgnet and here yours are some of the best reviews for actually getting a decent handle on what the games about and if its actually any good or not, so the fact you dont already have a blog where people can read them free of the need to join a forum(or even the need to visit a cesspit full of entitled none gaming wankers in rpgnet's case) is a mystery to me

I'd be very interested because my work schedule causes me to miss a lot of your chats.

Go for it - I don't think there is anything like that in the blogosophere, so it would be a niche filled.

Don't do it! I don't need the competition.

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I watch RPG re-caps that DMs post on YouTube.

Go for it, Dan! I'd read it!

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I hope you make an archive available of all your previous reviews Dan, I think your blog would get more readers if it was the go-to site for people who didn't want to visit awfulpurple or here.

Also maybe a different blog template would be better.  The basic narrow column in the middle with blog roll/archive might work for most, but for large articles like reviews and "difficult to read due to format" stuff like IRC chatlogs might need a different template.

Also, it might be better to have a link somewhere to the unadulterated pure chaos of the IRC chat, but for the main article confine it to the actual questions and answers and filter out the noise.  The noise is easy to filter when you're doing it live, but after the fact, it's harder.