How To Create A Forum

This is in response to a direct message I got on Twitter by someone who requested not to be named.

The question was:

I keep getting ideas of what to write from my peers, how do I avoid looking like the “me too” person?

That’s actually a common problem for bloggers, especially in the tech area. Blogging veterans call the tendency for a lot of people to report on the same thing “the echo chamber”. None of us wants to be the blog that just reports on the other blogs — our readers will say, “but TechCrunch already told me that, Tinu, so why should I subscribe to both of you?”