D blog?

[Kiith-Sa via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 10:17:26 UTC, Joakim wrote:
> On Tuesday, 15 July 2014 at 00:41:12 UTC, Jesse Phillips wrote:
>> On Monday, 14 July 2014 at 19:41:19 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>>> whereas I'm asking about having an official blog on dlang.org 
>>> and how much interest there is from others to contribute to 
>>> one.
>>
>> This is my question, what do you expect people to contribute? 
>> Release announcements are obvious. Would it mimic D.announce? 
>> Is it for the language developers to blog about what is in 
>> later releases?
>
> Anything that would help generate and maintain interest in the 
> language, announcements are the least of it.  Take a look at 
> the Go blog.  I already mentioned taking posts like H.S. Teoh's 
> and highlighting and expanding on them.
>
> Another possibility I mentioned is putting up interviews with 
> developers, where they could talk about future directions or 
> what they like about D.  Interviews are relatively easy to 
> crank out over email but are usually informative.  The more 
> people get involved from the community, the easier it will be 
> to keep it active.
>
>> My point about Planet D is that it provides a means for anyone 
>> to contribute any content and is already followed by many, and 
>> it shows a low participation in blogging.
>
> The focus of an official blog would be different and could have 
> a couple people driving it to keep participation consistent.  
> We need to remedy that "low participation."
>
>> An official blog would require another lieutenant to manage 
>> what is the "official" blog content. Having that would be 
>> great, but having a blog without the lieutenant isn't great.
>
> I've offered to administer it.  That means either just 
> technically setting the app up and maintaining it or managing 
> and generating posts, or both, whatever's necessary.
>
> The question is whether others think we need an official blog, 
> and if so, would they contribute?

Planet D is not something that a non-D user would even notice. If 
we have an "official" blog it should be prominent on dlang.org 
(i.e. linked both from the sidebar *and* the front page).

One thing that such a blog may be useful would be more in-depth 
articles about any new releases that appear (e.g. 'history' of 
new features, what problems those features solve, etc.). Also, 
perhaps interviews with devs of major projects, interesting new 
projects (e.g. something that I found interesting lately - the 
Dash game engine project); but the blog shouln't be "everything" 
- only stuff interesting enough to show off e.g. on Reddit and 
important stuff like release.
Maybe a monthly or so "D stats" post would be good as well (see 
http://commit-digest.org/issues/2014-05-11/ ).

I'd like to contribute from time to time, when I have something 
that may be interesting enough, but in my case that's probably 
about once a year.