As you may (or may not) have noticed, my output on this blog has lessened over the last few weeks. There are lots of reasons for this – I’m working a lot more in the evenings for example – but for a variety of reasons I simply can’t blog as much as I used to.
However, I do not want to either stop blogging or stop _this_ blog. So what I am proposing is that Left Brain/Right Brain undergoes a bit of a change. Not in focus so much but more in style, content and – above all – writers.
I want to make this blog a multi-author blog. That is the first change. I want to ask you, dear readers, if you would like to consider becoming bloggers? I am not asking for any kind of commitment in terms of time or regularity but it never escapes my attention that there are some pretty damn smart people who comment on my blog (and no doubt lurk too) but who don’t own a blog themselves. I would love to see your thoughts expanded into semi-regular blog entries. I’m also aware that there are people who already have a blog but who don’t post very much – maybe you would rather move your efforts to a team based blog?
What I would really like is to get a team of say 20 people blogging which would assure that there was at least one post per day made.
You will not be censored in any way but your subjects should be about your experience with autism, your familial experience with autism or your professional experience with autism. If you write about these subjects I would only tolerate ‘acceptance’ led posts (not to say every post you make must be about acceptance but you know what I’m talking about).
I would also like to see autism science posts and posts exposing autism related quackery.I would expect these posts to be well referenced.
You can post under your real name, or a pseudonym (or both!) – you don’t even need to tell me who you are. I don’t care. I’m interested in what you say, not who you are.
I guess I would like to see this site become more of an ezine/magazine rather than a blog.
If you’re interested, let me know, either in the comments section or by email (kevleitch@gmail.com).
Left Brain Right Brain 
You could also reproduce posts by others that you like. This would be a good thing because your blog gets considerably more traffic than the average autism blog.
Plus you could repost your favorite old posts, like Orac does from time to time.
Oooh,
See the creativity flowing! 🙂 I look forward to your blog becoming an ezine… and I hope you are able to blog something once a week or so.
Please tell me your guest writers won’t be called “editors” and you won’t have egotististical little airbrushed photos of the guest writers, with the women looking tousled, serious yet vulnerable… like (wannabe) movie stars. 🙂
Though little graphics for each author might be ok.
I can’t wait to see what your guest bloggers/writers write.
May I join up please?
Be careful not to mimick the look of the Rescue Post!
Many of the comments you get here are post-worthy in themselves: Perhaps the commented might be contacted and the comment republished?
Kristina, you blew my thunder!
I was going to suggest he change the name to the “RightBrain Post”.
Matt
I’ll contribute occasional entries, if you’ll accept them.
Drop me an email please Luai :o)
I searched your site, but I can’t find any contact info. What’s your email adress?
I would LOVE to blog for this site! I’m 15 years old, I’m queer, and I’m an aspie, so I think I could give an interesting perspective to things.
I don’t know your e-mail, though.
Kev,
I notice you waited until you had a 520 post head start on everyone!
Matt
I like to stack the deck in my favour ;o)
Lindsay, sorry 15 is too young.
content
*ears perk up*
will have to ponder this.
Donna