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Pros & Cons of Using a Wiki for Local Blogging

Submitted by Matthew Sboc from Google Reader

Apr 06, 2009

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(This is a guest post by Andrew Moore, a hyperlocal blogger from the Kansas City, Missouri area. In addition to being the editor of TheKCGuy.com for over a year, he has been a software engineer for most of the last decade.)

I have made what appears to be a rather foolish decision. People often ask me why I built my blog out of a wiki. I didn’t mean for it to happen this way, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. I like it, and you might like it, too.

When I first set out to build TheKCGuy.com, I didn’t realize that I was making a blog. I was shooting for something more like a regular web site that could serve as a guide to the things to do in Kansas City. I thought I was building an encyclopedia about my town. So, timely posts like you’d find on a blog were less important to me than articles about restaurants or attractions that might be periodically updated. Using a wiki as my content management system didn’t seem that extraordinary.

As time has progressed, I’ve seen the benefits of posting regular articles as is typically done on a blog. Not only does the cons

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