It's been months since www.ifgogo.com is online. We post 35 posts and received 397 comments. It's not a big number,  for we have 11 authors in all. Actually, in the past few weeks, some friends asked me about the future of ifgogo.com. I did not answer them immediately in details, so that's why you are now reading this post.

At the Chinese Blogger Conference 2007, I introduced ifgogo to some foreigner friends. Most of them were very interested in this idea. But when being asked for the future of ifgogo, three problems are also raised: The first problem, reader-experience first, or author-experience first; The second problem, post regularly, or post at will; The third problem, more authors, or less authors.

I met Xu and Chen in Beijing, but due to some reasons, we did not discuss about ifgogo in details. So here I just want to say something about these three problems:

1) Reader-experience first or author-experience first
Seems to be a good question, but as I think about twice, I get the answer: the authors' experience. The reason is simple: readers' experience is mostly due to the content you provide. However, the content is directly driven by our authors. The authors should be of great interest in sharing wise ideas, some of them should be dedicated to "blogging in English at ifgogo". However, the most very reason to drive an author is the author experience. After all, once the author experience is well designed and the rules(The rules, as well as the privileges for our authors) are well made, I believe the reader-experience will be very great.

2) Post regularly, or post at will
It's not that complicated. As I mentioned above, when the authors feel that writing at ifgogo is a funny job and of great joy, they will be posting interesting stories regularly at will.

3) more authors, or less authors
Once the rules are well made, I think this is not serious. For example, we can put the "top-10 authors of the week" at our homepage as reward. And we can set up a core-team of ifgogo.com

We (Xu, Chen and me) will have some talks later and I am sure we can have some great ideas!

However, if you have any suggestions, feel free to post a comment here!