Group blogs.. confusing or fabulous?

I love visiting blogs!  I really love to get to know the person behind the blog.  Usually their personality comes through in their posts and those are the ones I end up following.  Of course though.. some of the blogs I visit are "group blogs".  Group blogs to me are blogs with three or more bloggers.  Ok.. sometimes I even consider blogs with two bloggers a group blog.  With a group blog it is much harder to discover the people behind the posts.  Each person needs to work harder to make their personal voice known.  A great example of a group blog that works is Oh the Books.  Not only is the template set up for the readers to easily know who they are reading a post from but each blogger also has their own feature.

I have also read some group blogs where I have no idea who is saying what.  I recently visited a blogger's blog who used to have their own blog and now have taken part in a group blog and I had no idea who was writing what.  Their voices are lost.   While the posts may still be good I prefer to know who I am talking to.  Having an author signature in these types of blogs is very important. Seriously... important!  There is another blog Picture Us Reading that does a fun husband/wife team.  I do keep trying to get my husband to contribute to my blog but alas... he has not.  Though he has helped me with graphics from time to time.

I also feel like having a group blog just to get up more posts is bad... bad.  I don't want to read a blog because it posts once a day.  I want to read a blog because it's fun and interests me.  I would rather the blog have one blogger who is fun and interactive then a whole group.  I like to see the group bloggers interact with each other too. That is why the two blogs I listed are great group blogs... they interact with each other.  Another good example of this is goodreads.  If I am apart of a book club on goodreads and the moderators don't interact why am I even in the group.  The moderators should be what keeps the group actively discussing and new.

 

So sometimes group blogs really work... sometimes they don't for me.  I know that some people think by taking on a co-moderator or a few co-moderators is great but if they don't put in the work to make these co-moderators fit in the blog could just fall flat. What do you think??  Any great group blogs you know of that you want to tell us about?  Do you have a group blog...  how is it working for you?