collaborative blogging
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Collaborative blogging (which may also be called "co-authoring" when in the context of a blog post or "co-blogging") is when you write a blog post with one or more person, which some IndieWeb community members have done.
IndieWeb Examples
- Quiet art; the tapestry of writing was written jointly by
Sara JakΕ‘a and
capjamesg. The post was written in real time using a Google Doc. - Painting impressions with Zachary was written by
zacharykaiwrites and capjamesg asynchronously, with each taking their time to write a response and then collating them on each other's blogs. - The IndieWeb Carnivals like IndieWeb Carnival and IndieWeb Movie Club are in a sense collaborative blogging, but they are more focused on an individual's response that is then collated into a round-up rather than being a place to write a blog post with someone directly (although this could be a fun topic for a future carnival!).
More examples
This is a collaborative project blog where a couple Bearbloggers get together and write posts about Bearblog, the indie web in general, and more.
Types of collaborative blogging
- Synchronous: writing together at the same time.
- Asynchronous: contributing at different times.
Blogposts & Articles
- 2025-08-21 Do blogs need to be so lonely? asks and explores the question "If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely?"
- A response post: Blogs donβt need to be so lonely
- 2025-01-22 Co-writing by capjamesg
- 2024-11-23 Blogging collectively
- 2022-10-04 Patterns for collaborative blogging by Steve
- 2022-01-06 January 2022 - Map of Inquiry by Tom Critchlow
Blogging still feels very single player. Despite the fact that almost all of my longer writing goes through Google Docs and a heavy process of notes, comments and discussion - when I publish a blog post itβs βflatβ in a way that a Google Doc is βaliveβ. How do we bring this co-creation, collaboration and discussion to the web?
So why not collaborative blogging? Why not groups of people coming together to create personal blogs? Something less formal than a journalist collective, but more communal than a personal blog. Blogging collectively opens us up to a new kind of content, one in which members of the blog are in conversation with one another in a way thatβs comfortable and unique.
- Co-blogging Law from 2006 documents the concept of co-blogging and its relation to the law.
