Reddit, StackOverflow, Wikipedia, and analogy
Analogy is a key driver for coming with new innovative ideas as I explained in this article. Remark how Wikipedia exploited CRUD operations to build the most used and biggest encyclopedia. See how Reddit is very close to this concept of crowd producing, editing, and rating online content. What about StackOverflow and how software engineers and developers post answers and upvote them. See How I am writing this blog article. What if our goal was to crowd write the best blog articles? What if you could take this one and reedit it making it better, maybe shorter or longer? What if we AB test the different version of it and present it to readers? What if the best is chosen given the level of readership engagement? Isn’t it a concept that exploits analogy using all these platforms like Reddit, StackOverflow, and Wikipedia to bring a new blogging platform concept? What if it is the Wikipedia of blog content? The first name I thought about months ago when I had this idea was blogcrud (still playing with an analogy about programming with CRUD)and the platform is right there on my computer ready to be pushed in production.
But without the wisdom of the crowd, it will never be a successful platform. For this to work, you, your family, your friends, and your colleagues, and of course I also should engage with it. If it doesn’t increase your status and help you achieve your goal why would you use it and share it? If it doesn’t match you and your expectations, why would you share it? if you don’t see yourself into it, why would you share it? Because people like you do things like this, this blogging platform should be like this for you to care about and to share
