Comments on: Perl’s visibility and branding

By: Zbigniew Lukasiak

Zbigniew Lukasiak — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 06:20:04 +0000

Adding to the ‘articles in magazines’ line of thought - how about starting with something easier like the online aggregators (http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/, http://news.ycombinator.com/, slashdot, etc.). I myself often write my blog posts with the intention to reach bigger audience than just the Perl community, but I mostly fail when I try self-submitting them, I would appreciate feedback how to improve my blog posts.

By: Rassie’s Doghouse » On generating buzz

Rassie’s Doghouse » On generating buzz — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:51:21 +0000

[…] buzzOn generating buzz July 12th, 2010 rassie Leave a comment Go to commentsAs is seems, my last article has left some things to be explained in more detail. Particularly, Gabor has left the following […]

By: Nilson

Nilson — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:29:12 +0000

I only wish more people in the Perl community shared your points of view (specially the most influential ones). I think you’re right on the spot with your branding analogy.

By: rassie

rassie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 10:56:31 +0000

I took the liberty to correct the paragraphs.

Considering articles: a very well-known IT publisher in Germany, Heise Verlag, is always happy to accept good articles. If I have some time someday, I’d send them an article about Perl. I think I’ll publish my thoughts on that and also on “buzz” as a separate article.

By: Gabor Szabo

Gabor Szabo — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:39:05 +0000

Ironman is not my brain child but I think it was a very important step getting the community to talk about stuff a bit more. It is not a "self-contained blogging system". It is an aggregator. Most of the blogs it collects are on their own systems (except of the use.perl.org and the ones on blogs.perl.org). Those blogs can be reached from other directions as well, not only from the Ironman.As far as I understood, the hope of Ironman was to get more people blogging and to get some kind of a conversation out from the mailing lists and IRC channels to a place where others can also see. I am sure it could do a lot more and I'd be happy if the organizers pushed forward with the "best post of month" idea but I think it already did a lot of good.OTOH you are right, it would be great if we had articles included in major magazines but I think such articles are much more difficult to write than the average blog posts we see. There are also a few open questions: How do you think that should happen? Everyone tries to write articles and submits them on their own? A single person (or a small group) organizes these? Who would that be? Which magazines would you try to get in? Perl 6 and naming: I wish people would stop blaming Perl 6 or its name on the lack of buzz around Perl. I wish people were spending that energy and time in creating more buzz. e.g. By writing an article and getting it published in a magazine.

By: Peter Rabbitson

Peter Rabbitson — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 02:30:32 +0000

+1, followed by standing ovation! While I generally disagree with the last part (rapid deprecation/morphing core) of your post, overall this is an excellent line of thought. Kudos!