Would anyone like to be a contributor?

At A, where I currently stand, this blog is barely read, and not adequately updated.

At B, where I’d like to be, this blog has a steady and wide readership, and I’m regularly updating it with intimations of my current work and my inchoate ideas.

I’ve often wondered about how I should get from A to B.  One possibility is the idea of opening up the authorship of this blog to other philosophers that would appreciate having a forum for discussion.  The list of contributors could be as liberal as “anyone who knows me and expresses interest” (and “knows me” could even be interpreted more liberally or limitedly) or as limited as “people studying in the PhD Program at the Ohio State University” or, once I have an area of specialization, “people specializing in my area”, but given that I don’t have an area of specialization, this latter development would be far down the road.  In any event, I trust that people who are occasionally posting on this blog would be motivated to keep up to date with it, and perhaps to link their friends to their own posts, which might in turn create exponential growth in readership.If you have any interest in being a contributor to this blog, I’d like to hear from you.  

As I currently imagine it, I would sign you up to the blog as a contributor, I’d edit the sections a little bit so that the information specific to me was no longer information about “me”, but information about “the webmaster”, and I would give you some space to introduce yourself as a contributor.  Then you’d be free to use this forum as a platform to post drafts of papers that you want vetted by a community, engage with one another on ideas that you’re developing, etc. etc.

If anyone has any interest, let me know.

This entry was posted on 23. November 2009 at 10:43 and is filed under Admin. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response or trackback from your own site.