You might have noticed that Four Starters have been somewhat quiet of late. Year’s end, various personal responsibilities and a confusion about focus all played a role in that.

Last year also marked the start of The Next Web weblog which is a Dutch based startup blog by the guys of Fleck and Wakoopa based in Amsterdam.

Four Starters had come to occupy much of the mission of a startup weblog mostly out of coincidence. Three quarters of our editors have always had a strong interest and some participation in startups. That and us being prolific bloggers, made us a de facto startup blog. This isn’t just true for startups, but many of us also have a strong interest in web development, microformats and photography.

Having pushed ourselves into the corner of startup blog, we felt halfway obliged to cater to the audience we got that way and writing this blog began to feel more and more like work. Especially because we wanted our writing to pass the high standards of quality we would like to read ourselves and not play the quantity/linkdump game some other blogs pass off as content.

Added to that is the fact that our part-time commitment cannot compete with more professional weblogs nor should it strive to do so. A weblog like The Next Web has a broad strategy and employs people to produce content for it.

Relaunch

So we have decided to go back to the core of Four Starters, which is a group of friends combining their English language blogs to write about stuff they think is cool or cool stuff they have done.

That way we will be writing about more different stuff more frequently and try to show our view and share our opinions on stuff on the internet. Because our interests are still aligned heavily with startups and events, expect to see more of that but also more about photography, programming, music, art and other topics (and I hope strong opinion).

Let us know what you think of this change of direction and what you would like us to write about. We have more than 150 subscribers and we feel we’re obliged something to you for the attention you are giving us.

The conversation sparked by the writing has always been one of the highpoints of this blog so anything which would continue that, would be great.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 12th, 2008 at 17:14 and is filed under four starters.