Could it be another life-streaming site to go head to head with Twitter, or another social networking site vying for Facebook’s throne? Whatever the next (dreaming-to-be) newest “disruptive” start-up is, we’re sure it’s bound to be just as unoriginal as using the term disruptive  in your headline and two times again in your opening paragraph.

Anyway, if you’re still reading that is, the unoriginal feature of the web to be discussed today, as you read it is: collaborative blogging. You know –that internet trend where friends rely on friends to promote dialogue as opposed to monologues over the blogosphere, and the finished product resembling a multi-contributed piece wrapped up and published as one single article, book, or thickly bound scrapbook—unbeknownst to some that it possibly involved many people to produce one solid piece of writing, and not just one village idiot to piss you off with spelling errors. Cool huh? Ok, now here are the three fledgling sites up on the chopping block:

WeBook.com – tagging itself as a community-sourced book publishing site, having raised $5 million in funding last September, and launching their first published project on Amazon books, Pandora, the collaborative writing that goes on between fiction writers, editors, and reviewers here are all meant to upset the conventional book publishing form. An American Idol-like approach is taken towards a site that is mostly consisted of a very young, female user-base, made up of writers that are eager to learn, vote, and win one of the most democratic book contracts to hit the net.

Diary.com – involves group collaboration but only to posts indicated by users as “shared” or public diaries (as opposed to “private” diaries). Initially borrowing the concept of micro-blogging—enlisting a Twitter-like 100 word limit on all posts—now the site enables you to spread your one-liner thoughts into at least a one-page outpour of diary-esque emotions with a newly revamped 1000 word cap. The site’s users also see their short (or long) updates as well as their friend’s through a life-stream feed that is very Tumblr-like, with the added filter of having any multi-number set of eyes able to peer into you (or your group’s) most deepest darks.

Rooji.com – might as well be the newest start-up to incorporate collaborative blogging for the purpose of collaborative blogging. Users post a topic or start a story and then “call” on their friends to contribute ideas, answer questions, and to help build the blog into a scrapbook compilation meets melting pot of relevant information through any medium possible (text, audio, video, art). Rooji’s concept of group collaboration simply for the sake of group-bonding has the potential to stand out because the lay-out is simply just focused on collaborative blogging—the production of one huge article contributed by many.

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