#peopleofBikeDC

[KelOnWheels]

So after the National Bike Summit happened last week some people were talking about how cool it would be to do something like The Biking Public Project and then some other people were talking about how cool it would be to do something like #BikeNYC.

So then I did something like this and this and also this and some other people are contributing and I hope you will too!

I’m trying to get out as much as I can to catch people and get their stories – it’s been really fun so far! But since there’s only one of me and people on bikes move fast, having collaborators would be great!

The idea is to get out and meet our bikey neighbors – all the different kinds of people on bikes.

It’s all very new and I’m sure there are details I haven’t thought of yet, but pop over and have a look – you may see some familiar faces already!

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[dkel]

It’s so appropriate that Dirt is the first person you see on these!

[rcannon100]

One thing I would love to see… we have all these little bicycle blogs spread out across the universe… would be cool to create a unified space – a #peopleofbikedc blog space – with many contributors. Disperse we are little dribbles not making much of a spash. But together… TOGETHER we can be lots of little dribbles. Oh wait, no, I mean ~ Together we can make a big splash!

[rcannon100]

If we wanted to do a collective blog, I think we would need
* Diverse buy in
* Editorial volunteers reflecting the diverse cycling tribes within bikedc
* Indicating that this is an institution, not some one person project
* clear scope (like local cycling blog where local means DMV, subject matter is cycling, includes events, personal stories, advocacy, news – no personal attacks, no defamation, no copyright violations)
* Publishing policy is essentially open. Anyone could submit and subject to review be published as long as complies with scope mission.

And example of this is, for Internet policy stuff, CircleID. Both in terms of structure and effectiveness. When I post to my own blog about Internet policy, I get like 40 hits. When I post to CircleID, it gets read like 1000 times. It creates a collaborative collective space with momentum and energy. It does not replace the FABB blog, and Windy Run, and whoever else. But all of those can publish to the collective – and get better coverage and strengthen the bikedc voice.

I personally would be glad to work on this, but I think it needs wide buy in to work. And I think if you tie together all the cool stuff Kel is doing ~ it could create a rich bikedc voice.

[mattotoole]

It’s easy enough to create a collective blog, w/ RSS feeds, etc. it would also help elevate the best local blogging to sites like GGW and Streetsblog, as one unified feed would be so much easier for their editors to follow.

To ensure the original author and blog get full credit and Google juice, rel=”canonical” tags really do work.

Anyway I’d love to see this happen, but personally I’m out of bandwidth.

[jrenaut]

I can probably contribute to the backend side and possibly some of the content.

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