Comments on: Personal Colour http://iam.peteashton.com/personal-colour/ That is who I am Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:15:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Pete Ashton http://iam.peteashton.com/personal-colour/comment-page-1/#comment-2996 Pete Ashton Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:41:37 +0000 http://ash10.com/?p=17#comment-2996 I should have emphasised, or even made, the point that it's blogs like Colour <i>in aggregate</i> that make them more interesting that a single site like CiB. You need everyone who's doing interesting stuff to run a blog or similar for it to work. And also the criteria of useful/interesting is important and not one I think can be settled on easily. I think my big point is while CiB, etc are very important they're not the best examples for others to be inspired by and they don't, on the whole, reflect what the <i>people</i> of an area are like. It's that personal, whimsical stuff that reflects the character of a city much better than info about stuff that's going on (as vital as the latter is). I should have emphasised, or even made, the point that it’s blogs like Colour in aggregate that make them more interesting that a single site like CiB. You need everyone who’s doing interesting stuff to run a blog or similar for it to work. And also the criteria of useful/interesting is important and not one I think can be settled on easily.

I think my big point is while CiB, etc are very important they’re not the best examples for others to be inspired by and they don’t, on the whole, reflect what the people of an area are like. It’s that personal, whimsical stuff that reflects the character of a city much better than info about stuff that’s going on (as vital as the latter is).

]]> By: Chris http://iam.peteashton.com/personal-colour/comment-page-1/#comment-2995 Chris Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:57:05 +0000 http://ash10.com/?p=17#comment-2995 I agree whole-heartedly with points 2-4 but I'm not sure the comparison in your first point works - Colour and CW share a format but are very different beasts. In terms of usefulness, if I didn't know Wolverhampton (and I don't really) CW gives me information about all sorts of things that I can dip into. Colour tells me what the people who run one night there are into. Is that interesting? Yeah. Useful? On its own I'd say not - you'd need a spread of blogs of a similar ilk and together they would be useful. Anyway, surely accusing CiB, CW, BiNS, etc of being insular is like accusing water of being wet - that's their whole essence and there's value in being geographically single-minded as you've proven yourself. I agree whole-heartedly with points 2-4 but I’m not sure the comparison in your first point works – Colour and CW share a format but are very different beasts.

In terms of usefulness, if I didn’t know Wolverhampton (and I don’t really) CW gives me information about all sorts of things that I can dip into. Colour tells me what the people who run one night there are into. Is that interesting? Yeah. Useful? On its own I’d say not – you’d need a spread of blogs of a similar ilk and together they would be useful.

Anyway, surely accusing CiB, CW, BiNS, etc of being insular is like accusing water of being wet – that’s their whole essence and there’s value in being geographically single-minded as you’ve proven yourself.

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