I've said that ARGONAUTA evolution has not been what I expected. Why? Well, that, not imagined as ARGONAUTA developed.
Before making value judgments about whether this development, I like, I do not like or irritates me satisfy me, I want to stress the fact that neither irritates me or makes me uneasy is just a fact that I note and I try to get Consequently, forecasts and, if possible, correction. Do not blame anyone, it is absurd spitting into history, if I have a suspect - argued, a Portuguese would say - I am myself for not having spoken with more cleaning.
said this before, which I know, as usual, not read. Explication:
ARGONAUTA conceived as a blog of blogs, in which each contributor cultivate your garden, freely and without any editorial line, and I think, however, has become a horticultural exhibition. I summarize it, and so development.
ARGONAUTA BLOG OF BLOGS AS .
When I opened my blog a few years ago, the blog was a rarity, were counted on the fingers of the hand that had foreros blogs. A few months after dozens of blogs swarmed the site and now a significant number of taxpayers have ARGONAUTA blogs. A few months after the boom of blogs and before the birth of ARG I concluded that this experience of blogging was bound to .... failure. Many blogs, no audience, not read or owners and that I personally I can not complain of hearing.
now there are dozens of blogs, dull, without upgrading, unread, no answer ... are a cemetery niche computer. It is very difficult to maintain the tension in the audience's interest enough to read your blog and the process feeds on itself, if I read I write, if I read I lose interest and do not write. But not argue ... Stop here read and review all the blogs you have in your Favorites and related, look at their latest update, with counters look at them, read the replies and comments ..
Already? That's it. Some exceptions are blogs from a single idea, an idea developed one day and you're done. A modeler does something that really love the picture and put back to put another six months later, another invents something, it gets and it's, another gets angry and puts a harangues against the world and no rewrites. So not going anywhere.
I thought that could merge all the posts in one, to blog posts, in which no work more, they had a guaranteed audience and by the way, collaterally, an incentive for still and alive. Very simple, the blog of X (which they read or the cat, because God has not called you on the path to publication) takes advantage of the pull of my blog that has a high audience by making grace my boutades . As the Blog of Sapa is very technical, and serious readers who hate what they read and controversial step and take a look to mine that would otherwise never read it.
In this way, it would form a community of blogs colorful, somewhat chaotic, but in an ordinary house with a standard format, a kind of wiki.
This assured two things (at least), hearing and movement, and, of course, materialize the idea of \u200b\u200ban important media opinion in the world of modeling.
This necessarily implied a few things: 1 That
taxpayers move their blogs to ARGONAUTA, (actually I closed mine, I did not write a single line until last week)
2 that taxpayers were sovereign in their blog to write is not writing , allow comments, permit, or act altruistically despicable act. Ie have absolute freedom without any other manager (mostly in private) will afease his behavior say in private than in public polemics between columnists (bloggers here) would be very healthy. This limits the performance of managers operating technical details Page, aesthetic, the page is so and so, and the maintenance of some sections ancillary or complementary (month's survey, news, etc.), reducing its interventions "moral" notorious cases of vandalism, piracy or pre-delinquent behavior . 3
course excludes the idea of \u200b\u200bemulation operation paper journals content, ie there is no periodicity or other tics of the old presses, written by impulse and desire, as we all do on our blogs, is that ARGONAUTA going to be the site of our blog, rather than have been ARGONAUTA blogspot.
This was the idea. And I think this has not been met by:
1 No one has done moving their blogs. All taxpayers have continued their individual blogs and, besides, have contributed to a magazine ARGONAUTA as content.
2 have been transplanted to a magazine schemes ARGONAUTA content, especially periodicity.
3 It has tried to establish certain editorial line. For me it was clear when it emerged the issue of freedom of expression when the exhibition moved Mestres. Tons of garbage were dumped on a piece of my garden, I decided to delete it (from my piece of garden, I stress) and administrative tapped me (no eye was another author who since has indicated its disagreement piece that would have been interesting) . Ergo ... The following comes razomiento bound: "if I am not free to delete or leave something on my blog because I quarrel, and not my blog, then I go to my blog" is a crude argument, but generally valid.
is obvious that my idea has not materialized. Not understood, I have not explained well.
ARGONAUTA MAGAZINE CONTENT AS
Furthermore ARGONAUTA has been developed following the outline of a traditional magazine: specific articles, a section more or less fixed, monthly.
has had some success at first: articles of interest, has made a niche audience, in short: it is.
However, I believe that this evolution is wrong and has no future, because: 1
content crisis: many of the articles of the boom of the early months are unique items, I mean, is the only article that the author had in its portfolio and looking like it will not back to have another in years. Few taxpayers fluent pen. This is a deadly problem in the short term items have been finished, the known authors do not publish it is not paid, and, last but not least, Buridan Donkey syndrome: we write we split between our blog, forum and the Argonauts with the risk of not completing any writing.
2 Large number of off topics and articles that touch only tangentially modeling. This is true for a blog, but not for content review. Are we one thing or another? 3 Lack
shaft. The blog posts of models is an idea virgin. The magazine content made by amateurs is altruistic old and discredited idea. Do not forget that the forums are and I refuse to deviate radically gram content from the forums (could move the thread of the SG, to say one, ARGONAUTA, my thread has more than fifty thousand visitors and an average cumulative three hundred a day but not write, but I reiterate that under no circumstances do that), it would be improper and ultimately lethal.
4 Lack of an opinion. If such opinion is controversial. It is difficult for many publish a controversial opinion in his blog, as to publish an article on a single site that is not yours. Also, make no mistake, if there are magazine and online publishing, and not my opinion, is the magazine is that what we wanted?.
In sum, neither I resign or anything like that, just think ARGONAUTA has evolved very differently to the concept with which I outlined and that has evolved as I see a very uncertain future. Otherwise I will continue to publish articles on it but obviously more sporadically. Of course I'm totally open at any time to retake the primitive idea of \u200b\u200bblog posts, it is but I still think that there is the future.
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