SayUncle asks about uniting the myriad of gun blogs Help me out here

Trying to heard the cats of gun blogging and 2A activism is a pretty difficult problem. While I agree that having a more unified and cohesive group would be to everyone's advantage, there are some significant problems.

It would be nice to have everyone on the same page, or at least a single site that has some sort of moderation and/or user voting that aggregates the links to relevant articles.

Generally I think some Digg/Reddit type functionality would be the best way to separate the relevant posts from the chaff of cat blogging, but Digg and Reddit cast too wide of a net and thus we get "the top ten list of football to the groin videos" and similar twaddle. I don't think a gun blog specific system could be piggybacked on the existing sites.

Ideally there would be some good indexing, so that you could read every bloggers take on 9mm vs. .45 or Which Democratic candidate is most likely to institute re-education camps.

The moderation and maintenance of any such of a site would also be a fair bit of work. I don't know that a handful of people could do it in their free time.

The broad scope of gun blogging, or even 2A issues complicates matters further. I don't care much about sporting purposes as rural duck hunters or the sporting clays crowd don't care much about concealed carry or self-defense.

I would say ultimately that such a site would need the sponsorship or support of a national organization like the NRA, but I believe that to be something of a deal with the devil - If they are putting up the servers they are going to want some kind of control over the content.

Since I am loathe to point to problems without solutions, so here are a few quick suggestions:

Blog Carnivals There is a 2A carnival and it only runs once every couple of months, and I don't believe it is very widely read. Making it a weekly event with greater participation would be helpful.

Unify the Existing Communities All of the various people of the gun, gun bloggers, etc. are overlapping silos of information. Building one community (or at least one major community) would reduce a lot of duplication.

Update:I have another idea on this topic here.