I want to blog frequently but usually don’t seem to find the time for it. I’m not above tying myself to the mast if it means blogging more.
Iron Blogger is a blogging and drinking club based on this premise. The rules are pretty simple:
- Blog at least once a week.
- If you fail to do so, pay $5 into a common pool.
- When the pool is big enough, the group uses it to pay for drinks and snacks at a meet-up for all the participants.
Nelson Elhage ran the original Iron Blogger for about a year before the effort ran out of steam. I’ve started a new instance with a couple people from the previous group and a bunch of folks from Berkman, MIT, and beyond.
If you live in Boston and want to join, there are still a couple of spots available. I’m going to cap the current group, at least temporarily, at about 30 people because I think that’s the maximum we’ll fit into a local pub. Look over the site and send me an email if you’re interested.
If you don’t live in Boston but want to organize your own Iron Blogger, you can use the software in Nelson’s git repository (or my branch) to automate nearly the whole process of tracking posts, generating reports, and updating the ledger of debts.
Nice way to incentive to blog, I’d like to run something similar, do I need wordpress?, I’ve checked the git repositories out and I really don’t see how I can make it happen with it, can you blog a little bit more about the setup?
Thanks for the great idea, even if I dont manage to use the software, I’ll do it manually.