re: The Perpetuum Mobile

Margriet Bruggeman — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:26:41 GMT

Yeah well, Ed, I don't think you are actually allowed to steal your own ideas. How about this: I steal your idea and you complain about that and I ignore your complaints about me stealing your idea. Sounds like a far better plan to me.

re: The Perpetuum Mobile

Ed Price - MSFT — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:26:50 GMT

Well you're presenting a nice wrench into the social wheel... If it's a Top 10 list, then that feels personal or official. And they don't want to mess with something personal or official (well most people don't; I'm game of course). =^)

So without some sort of measurement as to which blogs qualify for the Top 10, the game's a bust. People will be afraid to break the official list or to remove good resources that shouldn't be removed (simply because it's not one of the Top 10).

So what I suggest is a different strategy. Why not create an article that is the Top 10 SharePoint Blogs? Then you leverage the SharePoint community in the forums (are you a Mod?) with a Sticky thread, asking people regularly to vote on the Top 10 blogs. Maybe vote every 3 months or so (with a new quarterly sticky thread every three months). Then all the other SharePoint blogs would be listed alphabetically under the list. But the top 10 would be listed at the top, in order of votes. And then you can blog the results of the contest here, of course. =^)

Man, I think I'm going to steal my idea and do it with SQL technologies.