Why Ryze? Launching a tribe on Ryze for Blogs and Bloggers needs a little justification. We are in the early adopter phase of both weblogs and explicitly open social communities and commercialization concerns pervade. Ryze is a business and blogs have arm merchants...that and the users are why they have evolved to be so useful.
Ryze provides something other places don't -- explicit social identity. When you combine that with link transparency and continual user friendly integration with other modes of communication, it yields powerful network effects. What a business. What a tool. Look for Ryze identity to continue to extend. Blogs are more content than identity centric.
Unlike Ryze, where identities are built through linkable interests and inter-personal ties -- blogs build identity primarily through content and context. An anonoblogger with much to say and reference is practically an identity, but the ties are based upon less trust. Bi-directional nested feedback loops would certainly complement the blogging medium. But the beauty of blogging is such trust links are negotiated in one-off fashion, evolving organically.
Both Ryze and Blogs require you to share part of yourself in return for exchange. They serve different functions, that of identity based relationships and content driven expresssion. What is facinating from a social network perspective is the intersection that is the tribe and the potential convergence of convenience.
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