Hello
readers,
How
is it going? Well, I presume, I think, I hope.
There is joyous news to announce! over the past weekend Between the Seats reached
something of a milestone, if a milestone it may be deemed (this is
movie blogging we're talking about, not saving lives). 200, 000 page
views all time, ladies and gentlemen! The blog has existed for only 3
and a half years and, if we are being honest, nobody save a select
few knew of its existence for a good year, so that's just under
200,000 page views in 2 and a half years.
Time for a chest pump. If anybody gets in our way, we'll take'em outRon Artest style. You may now applaud.
We
can't hear any app-
APPLAUD!!!
Thank
you, thank you. How kind of you all. We didn't know how much you
loved us!
Is absolutely everything rosy? Well, no. Some promises go unfulfilled, such as
that funny one we made a while back that tons of articles would
appear in the month of April. Heh, that was rather idealistic on our
part. The truth of the matter is, with work, social life and Sound on
Sight now a full part of our movie reviewing lives, it would appear
the days when about 15, 16 or even 17 articles were published inside
a single month are coming to an end. That number is probably going to
max out at 10. An average of about 1 articles every 3 days. Not that
bad, no?
Now,
what is about to be said is no joke, although it may come off a
little strange considering that Between the Seats has had as its
driving force the same brain for the past 3 and a half years.
However, assuming that obligations elsewhere really do prevent us
from providing the same number of articles as was the case over the
past couple of years, would it be interesting to allow other
writers, perhaps some with no
blogs to call their own (or otherwise, we do not discriminate here),
to publish material at Between the Seats to fill some of those gaps?
We shall tell no lie, it is an idea which has gestated in our minds
on and off for a few weeks already. This isn't some clever device we
came up with this morning just for kicks. In the spirit of the
democratic process, we throw the question to you, the faithful
readers. You'll notice a poll question in the upper left corner of
the site with the following question:
Is
it a good idea for Between the Seats to hire other writers?
Happy
voting!
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2 comments:
I think adding additional writers might not be so bad - especially if there are writers out there whose writing you think fits the tone of your own site. Go for it!
I generally prefer personal blogs to be personal. Something gets lost when you hire a staff of co-writers. It becomes a website, which is not the same as a blog.
Guest posts is a different matter. You could have those once in a while. But once there are too many of them, the blog loses a bit of its personality in my eyes.
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