Blog Sites Like Ours Rerun #48

If Web sites are the Magazines, then Blog Sites are the daily newspapers and most Dance blog sites simply just furnish information and a photo or two about dancing. The truth is that a blog is hardly the place where you would want to reach for your credit card. However, blogs rely on fresh content and it’s evolving in Hawaii and the Pacific that a dance blog should post at least 2 to 3 new entries a week. Now that is being up to date.

 "Impossible is only another name for unbelief; hopeless is often the signature

of doubt; incurable is but the present tense of undiscovery."

"Still Water (Love)" by The Four Tops

Dance blog reader/dancers visit blogs to get fresh information or insight on topics that are interesting, current and important to them. The most interesting are the less complicated ones with enough photos to make it more interesting. Dance Blogs tend to be more opinion-based than Dance Web sites. And the more different independent honest opinions the more interesting the blog.

"Come and Get It" by Badfinger 

The real value of blogging isn't the capability of the tool, but the ability for each and every page on the site, each and every article, to invite and display feedback from readers. This is a dramatic difference because it changes a monologue, a "brochure," into a dialogue with reader/dancers able to reply. Indeed, often the most compelling reading in a blog site are the comments that others leave and the debate that often ensues as people add their two cents and disagree with each other.

"Look What They've Done to My Song, Ma," by The New Seekers

We have yet to see much of this in our Hawaii blogosphere because most of our reader/dancers are very polite in public. It will come but it will take time to be recognized and used in Hawaii, probably West Oahu will lead the way. While there are no laws stating that a site must have certain capabilities to truly be a blog, it is nonetheless true that most blogs allow comments and are not forcing anyone to revisit the site with any sort of frequency.

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is quite another."