Askablogr Overview

Askablogr is the result of a bad case of writer's block. I had just started blogging and my goal was to post every day. And not just one of those "linking around" posts, mind you, but something thoughtful and interesting and witty and well-written and... well, as you might imagine it wasn't going so well.

So instead of writing a blog post that day I sketched out an idea for a new service that...More»

Askablogr is the result of a bad case of writer's block. I had just started blogging and my goal was to post every day. And not just one of those "linking around" posts, mind you, but something thoughtful and interesting and witty and well-written and... well, as you might imagine it wasn't going so well.

So instead of writing a blog post that day I sketched out an idea for a new service that would do just a few things:

1. Make it easy for blog readers to submit questions, while protecting the privacy and attention of the blogger
2. Make it easy for bloggers to answer some questions and decline others (or permanently block certain questioners) without hurting anyone's feelings
3. Automagically publish these Q&A exchanges to the blogger's blog
4. Create a master index of all the participating bloggers, readers and Q&A sessions, with links back to the source blogs, to help readers find and participate in this new kind of blog conversation«Less