Who is in your Blog Tribe? Do you have one? | Codex Atlanticus di Luke Gedeon

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Do you comment on blogs?

Somehow in my wandering around the blogosphere, I discovered the Middle Zone. From there I met several other people and started to notice something. The same names kept showing up in the comments on several different blogs. It was kind of neat. I have seen some blogs where one person (the blog owner) starts the conversation and everyone else continues the conversation in the comments section, but they never visit each other’s blogs. That is essentially a fan-club, but this was different. Everyone (it seems) goes to the posts of everyone in this group and comments on their posts.

This group of bloggers has formed a tribe!

This tribe does not seem to be centered around one individual. I referred to it as the Hruzek tribe a couple days ago since his blog was the first one I discovered, but there are several others that seem to be central to the group also. Some common attributes I noticed are that most of the members write as part of their job or are pretty active hobbyist and they write really well, their blogs are mostly G-rated, they are tech-savvy but not tech-centric, they are happy (i.e. very few rants), they are non-didactic, and they are interesting. Uhm… I have a little work to do before I really fit in.

What is a blog tribe?

Well since congress has not gotten around to defining the term, I guess the definition is a bit open, but here is my attempt at a definition.

A blog tribe is composed of three or more bloggers where each member regularly comments on a majority of the other blogs in the tribe and the majority of the comments on each blog come from tribe members.

Because of the high level of connectedness, it would be really unusual to find a tribe larger than 20-50. Larger groups, usually referred to as communities, may have overlapping tribes but also have a lot of other people that are only loosely associated. Larger, loosely coupled communities and fan-clubs are much more common than tribes, but finding or forming a tribe of your own is worth it.

Here are some the members of the tribe. In this case, I am specifically talking about regular commentators on multiple blogs in the group. Can you help me find the rest?

http://www.wordsellinc.com/blog/ – Brad Shorr

http://ullahennig.wordpress.com/ – Ulla Hennig

http://middlezonemusings.com/ – Robert Hruzek

http://lillieammann.com/ – Lillie Ammann

http://confidentwriting.com/ – Joanna Young

http://www.brainleadersandlearners.com/ – Ellen Weber

http://wordsforhirellc.com/blog – Karen Swim

http://www.sayleadershipcoaching.com/talkingstory/ – Rosa Say

http://www.consultcameron.com/ – Jackie Cameron

http://brainbasedbiz.blogspot.com/ – Robyn McMaster

If you regularly comment on one of these blogs, which of your regular commenters also comments on the same blogs that you comment on?