Clinton Montague

Developer, learner of things, functional programming enthusiast, hacker, and all round inquisitor.

oxfordbloggers.com

August 28, 2009

It was around 9 or 10 in the evening in the Jam Factory. After a very successful Ox Tuttle, Ben Walker (@ihatemornings), Colin Mercer (@colinmercer) and myself came up with one of those genius drunken ideas. oxfordbloggers.com is it.

The aim is simple – to create a place to collect the thoughts and ramblings of Oxfordonians to give an idea of the general flavour of the local part of the blogosphere (man, I hate that word!)

The rules are also very simple. Live in Oxford? Have a blog? Want to be part of a relatively active nerd/geek/blogging community? Answer yes to those and you’re fully qualified to get your blog put on there too :) A rough outline/overviewy kind-of-thing reads something similar to this:

  • We’re not going to put advertising on the site, or make money in any way.
  • All content is fully attributed to the blog authors.
  • All links go directly back to the original blogs.
  • We’re not enabling comments – if you want to comment, go to the blog.
  • We’re only doing this to get some more people to read blogs that we think deserve it.

Taken from the about page of oxfordbloggers.com

It’s still early days (less than 24 hours from conception to go-live) so excuse us if you manage to break something or you get a splinter from a badly sanded edge.