The Status Blog (www.thestatusblog.com) is a crazy idea I’m playing around with, usually a blog has 1 (or only a few) authors, The Status Blog will have lots of authors, instead of lots of posts by the few authors, the many authors will post only a few posts (or many if they want). Instead of long content rich blog entries, this blog will contain interesting topics and short blurts while the reader will provide the rich content by commenting on the content being posted.
It’s like Twitter, combined with wordpress, combined with these ask a question type sites and maybe even a forum or like reddit where you basically store lists of links and then get back to that list of links, I don’t yet know what it is, was just curious to see what microblogging inside a real blog would be like.

Authors get to choose one site they want a backlink to and it will be added to the list of authors. The avatars come from the gravitar service. Authors get to post pretty much anything, as long as it’s interesting and not spammy, although throwing in links to your own site once in a while is fine, will add a rating system later on.

I’m curious to see what this will turn into, if you’re interested in giving this crazy idea a shot and posting some of your own (or stolen) status updates, simply register (bottom right) and drop me a comment saying you’re interested in becoming an author.