Some commenters have recently been critical of NPR’s blog Mixed Signals for their use of an ever-rotating panel of temporary bloggers that have included many of their illustrious on-air personalities.
“Ya’ll need to find a REGULAR blogger(s), and quit treating this thing as a ‘by the way,’” wrote commenter “Scott” this past Monday.
Today, NPR’s current blogger Ken Rudin responded.
First, props to Rudin for his well thought-out response to the detractor. He gets a “take that, detractor!” award. Reasserting the importance of the conversation between the blogger & the commenters was also a good move.
But beyond that, I have a suggestion for NPR. Perhaps instead of rotating a all your different personalities, you could have them all blog at the same time, kind of like Byron & Steve & I take turns posting over here. You could still have one “blog host” who is responsible for most of the posting and for framing the discussion, but open up posting rights to a group of people and let all those compelling perspectives that Rudin refers to bump up against each other in the blogosphere.
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