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By: Ellen

Ellen — Sat, 06 Jan 2007 19:35:00 +0000

I have been searching off and on for a conversational community for over a year, and still come up short. There are a lot of technical and political communities, but that isn’t all I want to talk about. I’d like to talk about the things I talk about with my face-to-face friends: architecture, photography, retirement, animals, movies, tv shows, genealogy, miniatures, crochet, online gaming, politics, family, friends, dance, exercise, travel, languages, and so on. I’ve tried friendster, penpal sites and others, and it’s incredibly frustrating – especially since I do not fall into the 15 to 30 age bracket.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:30:00 +0000

On the flip side, perhaps this boils down to “there is no spoon.” It’s not that the stuff on your blogroll is inherently boring, but instead, it is YOU who changed, and those blogs/sites aren’t adapting to your evolving interests.He says, listed on your blogroll (start page?). For now. Also, I am stewing on some thoughts in the direction that you’re speaking to with this post. Your stewage is helping me with mine. So mission accomplished in some small way in the “conversation” department.

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:33:00 +0000

Thanks for the comments.Mathew: Ze Frank is cool and funny, but he’s in the process of being assimilated by the Borg.Seth: I used to disagree with you about blogging being a poor method of conversation, but I’m starting to turn. When people are standing in front of you, there’s at least some social pressure to be polite. I’ve said many times that blogs are like cars- they bring out the inner asshole in people. Maybe the same forces work against conversation. I think if we get enough people interested in the conversational manifesto, we can still create a fun and useful exchange. At least I hope so. But to do it, we have to walk away from the closed circle of the self-important blogstars.Mike, I got ripped in the comments for not choosing StumbleUpon as a round winner in my Web 2.0 wars. It clearly has some fans. I’m not sold at all on either iPod videos or cell phone videos as a business. It’s just something to do once or twice because you can. Having said that, I did listen to Sirius on the phone Sprint sent me to review- and that was pretty cool.Ian: Yes, and, at least at the top of blogger’s hill, the pats generally go back and forth between bloggers who are part of the in-crowd. My ultimate plan is to recreate the in-crowd with people who do more than bounce links between themselves.Larry: it was actually the 1000 Facebook links along with the Rojo sale that led me to conclude that I just don’t give a shit about a lot of the stuff that seems vitally important to some. It’s not that I don’t want to talk about tech- because I do. But one high school science project absorbing another just doesn’t excite me anymore.Arthur: Every time I see those Anchovies on Sponge Bob, I think to myself “that looks like my RSS feeds.”Chip: guys like you and Earl, Richard, Mathew, Seth (if I can browbeat him into not quitting blogging), etc. are the sort of people I want to build the new blogosphere around.If we, as bloggers, are getting bored with the same old, same old, you know a lot of readers are too. There is an oppotunity here to beat the blogging cartel at its own game- and have a blast along the way.

By: Sterling "Chip" Camden

Sterling "Chip" Camden — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 17:23:00 +0000

Kent,Funny, I’ve been thinking about eliminating some of the feeds that I regularly just mark “read” even though they’re the ones “everybody” reads. I’ve been attracted more towards readers that nobody else seems to know about.Glad to see that your reading list contains one Chip Camden. Thanks!

By: Arthur

Arthur — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:22:00 +0000

Great post. Kind of depressing, but it seems like lots of bloggers are coming to the same point you are. Good luck to you. Nice reference to Krusty Krab by the way.

By: Larry Borsato

Larry Borsato — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 14:28:00 +0000

Well put. I too look to the blogosphere as a place to learn new stuff, not to hear ad nauseum about today’s new thing or the latest Facebook redesign.

By: Ian Delaney

Ian Delaney — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 12:51:00 +0000

Blog conversations often seem to end up as mutual pats on the back. It’s not very often that you read: “X has written a new blog entry about Y, and he’s talking complete nonsense”.I think also the format’s built-in pressure to keep posting means that lame entries like “X published a good post about Y. Here’s an excerpt” are positively encouraged.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:33:00 +0000

Funny timing. I started using StumbleUpon again yesterday for just the same reason. I figure if I spend a little time blindly surfing the internet about topics I like, I might find a few new things I like to read.I’m not 100% sold. I seem to land on a lot of product sales pages, but I did find a few new blogs of interest yesterday.Also, movies on a phone might be a “dumb” idea, but I bet a ton of people will use it. The video iPod phenomenon seems to be catching on. And, kids who are growing up watching videos everytime they get in the car are not going to be content to not be able to watch videos when they are sitting at a park or waiting for the bus.

By: Alex Williams

Alex Williams — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 06:56:00 +0000

Hear, hear. Makes me think that I better head out this weekend to listen to some music and clear my head. It’s getting all bloggy.:-).