Suprised to find I can access blogs without signing in. I used to enjoy Quora. I would browse, then sign in and comment when I felt I had something relevant to add. Unfortunately the forced login to view content and Quora automatically posting recently read articles onto Facebook made me stop visiting.<p>These blogs won't draw me back. Many topics have aggregators you can submit you blog to. I would imagine building a readership on Quora will be no easier than running a self hosted blog.
<i>>Quora’s new blogging tools will appeal to two demographics. The first are people without any web celebrity already. Quora’s Kah Keng Tay writes that Quora blogs suit people who “(1) don’t have a big, established online presence already and (2) don’t want to do the time-intensive, heavy lifting of marketing their blog and slowly building an audience.</i><p>It's a double edged sword, since (1) might accelerate your path to internet stardom by a little bit, but by taking (2), you lose the control and a large part of the benefit that comes from achieving internet stardom (if that's you thing) in the first place.<p>If you are looking for marketing enhancers for your online blogging, you're usually at least partly considering some ends beyond increasing eyeballs (affiliate ads, consulting leads, ebook sales, etc.) [1]. Using Quora as your primary platform puts a damper on the output of these 'ends', and using it as a secondary "Crosspost" location fragments your audience and increases your labor overhead anyways.<p>Addendum: Benefit (2) is largely moot since its upfront cost reduction for a blogger is not going to be significantly larger than Tumblr, if at all.<p>[1] If you weren't at least considering these things, then you'd probably be happy staying on your own domain.
Quora really needs to fix this.<p>I just launched my blog at <a href="http://ececconi.quora.com" rel="nofollow">http://ececconi.quora.com</a> and then opened up an incognito window on Chrome. Navigating to the site took me to the Quora signup homepage. I have to enter in the address again into the bar and press enter to navigate to the blog.<p>One of the things I dislike most about Quora is how the website obscures the content in attempt to get more people to sign up for it.
Quora hate aside, given the supposed reasoning behind this,<p><i>The Internet is full of experts with no one reading their insights. It takes a lot of work to build a following. So today Quora launches a blogging platform that automatically distributes posts to its Q&A site users who follow related topics. Thanks to its upvote system, home page feed, and a new mobile text editor, anyone with something brilliant to blog, even first-timers, can find a readership.</i><p>I guess it's too bad Quora didn't pickup Posterous.
So, how do I create my blog on Quora? Or is it invite only?<p>Edit: Create your blog here: <a href="http://www.quora.com/blog/add" rel="nofollow">http://www.quora.com/blog/add</a><p>Edit 2: Won't be using this. I can't write code snippets using a monospace font. What gives?<p><a href="http://sergiotapia.quora.com/adsf" rel="nofollow">http://sergiotapia.quora.com/adsf</a>
I am kind of disappointed that you cannot use LaTeX math in the entries. On quora it JUSTWORKED so I was hoping that it would work on their blogging platform but nope: $\sin\theta$ just sits there in its dollar signs...<p>Feature request: math support.
This seems like quite an interesting development. Isn't this method of 'blogging' something similar to whatMedium is doing? I wonder if they'll start allowing anyone to post ahead of schedule.
The blog layout didn't have to exactly copy the default Wordpress layout. But the ease of use is awesome in terms of selecting topics to write about, showing the count of people following that topic. Quora would be a much more frequented place with blogs being visible without signing up.