We love blogs. We have them, we use them, we love visiting them, and we have plenty of their feeds on our Netvibes pages. We do everything short of decorating our living room walls with them. Seriously. You can’t find another platform online that can be easily set up and personalized according to your personal tastes, that chronicles your thoughts and creations without any coding mess.

But blogs have their limitations, if deep interaction with others is what you’re after:

• blogs tend to be monologues, meaning they are a platform for the blog author (or authors) to write a few paragraphs of their own feelings on a topic. There might be blogs with multiple contributors, but each blogger writes his/her own piece; they don’t necessarily interact with each other. Blogs just aren’t set up that way—dyalogues are.

• a limited form of interaction comes in the form of comments, but even the blogger might not necessarily respond to comments (or might cherry-pick those he/she responds to). You see the start of two-way exchanges in blog comments (you know, the “@ user” lead-ins), but they typically never get past the first set of exchanges because comments really aren’t set up that way, either.

• Blogs have their natural “home field advantage” - so even if two bloggers are willing to have a conversation with each other, the question becomes where? Do they just email each other back and forth, and then cobble together what looks like a chronological exchange on one of their blogs? Pingbacks/trackbacks give bloggers a heads-up that they’ve been referenced in a post, but it’s a clumsy way to actually manage communication.
  

Now I know most bloggers seeing blogging as a solitary pursuit, but there are plenty of others that see it as a platform for online discussion. What we’d like Dyalogues to be is the bully pulpit for all bloggers to share and exchange their views with other bloggers, making relationships one blogger at a time.

So, bloggers, we hope you enjoy using Dyalogues’s unique form of interaction with other bloggers to give your blog the exposure it deserves.