Are you in Vancouver? Do you have a blog? Do you contribute to a blog? Would you like to?

Here’s the deal – a year plus back, Jeffery Simpson put out a call for people to contribute to Vancouver’s Metblog, and I jumped on board. Then the other bloggers wandered off – which happens. People have other stuff going on. Then… Jeffery started to wander off – dude got married even, totally understandable.

Now, if you look at the site, it’s been mostly me, and even I can only manage only once and awhile – currently, nobody has posted in a month and a half.

And that sucks – Metblogs LA, SF, New York are local culture and color forces to be reckoned with (and other cities), but in Vancouver, it’s suffered the usual blase follow-through. And that always boggles my mind – Vancouver is such a high-tech town, easily en par with LA and San Fran, but we can’t keep our Metblog jumping?

So here’s my thinking – committing to a site is hard and I don’t want to ask people to do what I can’t even manage myself. And I’m not even sure I can hook people up anyhow, at least right now. I’m not in any sort of EIC position.

BUT…

…I can post. All I need is, at a minimum, ideas, at a maximum copy.

Posting to a blog requires an idea and a write-up. And as evidenced by the site, I can only rarely manage both. But if I have an idea, the write-up is pretty easy. If I have a write-up, posting it is even easier.

So let’s put our heads together for the new year. For example, I’d love blog each and every Vancouver comicon, which happens a few times a year, but I always forget, and this is a free gig – I can’t devote the organizational time and energy to keep track of it and everything else cool in town. But if Toren, who goes regurlarly, were to remind me, I could write it up. If someone were to have something in mind and write it up, I can post it in their name (complete with linkage and hyping of their own sites/blogs.)

I think the mistake thus far is that Vancouver’s strength – highly creative, high energy – is also it’s weakness for a site like this. If it’s not a job that someone is getting paid for, it’s hard to focus a handful of editors to write for it consistently…

…but what if it was a group mind effort on the info side, and a one person custodial task to post all that info? Someone who’s on the site already. Someone who lives in front of his computer anyhow.

Think about it and do not think huge. If the idea excites you, do not make it a big undertaking, which in time will likely wear you down – pacing will be key here. If anything has been proven by Jeffery or myself, it’s that one person cannot fill this void – it will take a lot of people. In fact, even when there are a dozen editors, all that Vancouver has to offer isn’t covered. But a group mind would naturally touch on all things Vancouver.

Could be that someone only sends something my way just the once. Or maybe someone does it really regular. Maybe that turns into proper editorial access for that person. I don’t know.

But anything has to be better than Vancouver’s metblog just sitting there, looking stupid next to other, similar, metropolitans.

Please think about it and regardless of how small the contribution, please join in.

I think this is, officially, now one of my new year resolutions.

So, uh. Thanks for reading. Spread the word?

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