I've been trying to turn a number of my friends into "bloggers," and build my own community.  However, most of the examples of blogs out there are not of interest to my community, except as curiosity.

So, my mission is to find blogs that my community might be interested in, demonstrate the power and interest of blogging, and build a new blog community.

I'll first start with finding one other friend to participate.  An achievable goal.  (I think.)

So you're going to convince your friends to blog?

Why, that would make you a born again blogger!

A Blogging evangelist! Start a blog, go to heaven, one post at a time. Know God through blogging. Confession is good for the soul. Comment unto others as you would have them comment unto you. The family that blogs together, stays together. Find that permalink for your soul. Blog on, brother. As you link, so shall you linkback. In the name of DayPop, Radio, and the Googleplex, Amen.

Or are you a blog pusher?

Psssst. Hey buddy, do you blog? I've some grade A stuff, straight in from the web, guaranteed to keep you locked to your computer for hours. Come on, the first post's free. Everyone's doing it. What are you, chicken? It's sooooo good you're gonna thank me for this. Just a five minute download and tweak and it'll be like you've been mainblogging for years. Just link to me, give me some flow, baby. That's all I ask.

Maybe a vampire.

Can't you hear the children of the night calling? They howl so beautifully. Join us and your thoughts will never die. Cross over and feel the unholy connection to your new extended family. Tilt your head. I want to suck your blogg!

Seb's Open Research:

K-Logs are a close fit to the academic culture. Here are ten reasons why. ...

This is a little scary. Like most disruptive technologies, klogging started very slow, spread like the common cold, and mutated as fast. But when faculty and students get ahold of something like this, it spreads like wildfire, mutates in surprising and dangerous ways, and makes archaic all we hold dear.

Can you imagine what they'll do with blogs and gigabit bandwidth? Community features and matrix computing? Syndication and the hundreds of thousands of home grown lab applications?

I shudder and tingle at the prospect.

[aka klogs]