The Lafayette Project is still under wraps, but MegNut and two other early bloggers are the founders, and at least in what little they say, I think they are tackling a real problem. That problem is “We want to help readers browse weblogs when they *don’t* know what they’re looking for.” (The entire admittedly vague explanation.) This problem is what I meant when I wrote
One challenge to part of Chris Anderson’s quote… “you fire the information out there, and interested people will find it.” I don’t believe it will always be found. In fact, I think that’s blogging’s greatest weakness — it’s not good at opening up to non-bloggers. (full post)