Yo don’t have to read blogs for long to discover that most of the best bloggers cover particular “beats.” Will‘s got the read-write Web, Gillmor covers new media, and Alex Steffen posts about environmentalism, to name just three of the dozens of bloggers I read regularly.
I’ve never felt like I had a particular beat, choosing to cut a wide swath instead. But I’m going to give it a try with a new project I’m working on. We going to be building an online curriculum repository at school, and I’ve been doing quite a bit of thinking about how the final product should look. Watch this space for periodic brain dumps on the topic.
What are your main goals (other than just a central file storage site)? Are you planning on working RSS in (notify about new additions to specific catagories etc.)?
Our school system has a kind of curriculum repository but I am not very pleased with the way it is set up nor its use by most teachers.
I’d be very interested in knowing what you are shooting for and how you are going about it.
I’ve actually been contemplating a resource like that for sometime now. I think it’s a great idea, sort of like an in-house expert system. However, my district is very low on technology funding at the moment, and seeing as our tech coordinator can only manage a lowly 15 MB of space per shared drive I don’t see something like that happening in the future.
It’s a terrific idea though, and that’s why I just decided to start with what I know best; web design and managing a community. I created a website built around a blog and forum that does basically what you’re talking about, but has a much more “loose” and community feeling to it than a database.
http://www.techsavvyed.net