http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/ Kent Newsome on technology, music and life Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:43:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4140 The Idea Dude Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4140 Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it's more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we're human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers. Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it’s more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we’re human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4141 The Idea Dude Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4141 Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it's more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we're human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers. Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it’s more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we’re human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4142 The Idea Dude Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4142 Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it's more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we're human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers. Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it’s more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we’re human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4143 The Idea Dude Fri, 17 Nov 2006 21:31:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4143 Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it's more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we're human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers. Kent, great post and lots of food for thought. At the end of the day, I think it’s more important to create interesting and quality conversations than worry about the in-crowd. Reputation and brand will always have its pull, we’re human after all. But over the long haul, I believe the bloggers that survive are those who create intelligent opinion and have cultivated a community of peers.

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4144 Amy Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4144 Great post Kent.You wrote: "I agree that popularity as a proxy for authority is flawed. The problem is that, at the moment, there is not a better mousetrap."Actually, it's not just flawed, it's entirely misleading -- IMHO. So it's not even a good mousetrap for now, because it's not really trapping mice. More like it's trapping cockroaches -- useful for it's own sake, but not the same thing as a mousetrap.You did make a very good point about celebrity endorsements confusing popularity (or at least familiarity) with authority. I've actually been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole "celebrity" phenomenon, and how that seems to be changing. I wrote a bit about that today on <a HREF="http://www.rightconversation.com/2006/11/buhbye_old_star.html" rel="nofollow">The Right Conversation</A>, and I'm sure I'll be writing more about it.I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have to say on this subject.Thanks!- Amy Gahran Great post Kent.You wrote: “I agree that popularity as a proxy for authority is flawed. The problem is that, at the moment, there is not a better mousetrap.”Actually, it’s not just flawed, it’s entirely misleading — IMHO. So it’s not even a good mousetrap for now, because it’s not really trapping mice. More like it’s trapping cockroaches — useful for it’s own sake, but not the same thing as a mousetrap.You did make a very good point about celebrity endorsements confusing popularity (or at least familiarity) with authority. I’ve actually been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole “celebrity” phenomenon, and how that seems to be changing. I wrote a bit about that today on The Right Conversation, and I’m sure I’ll be writing more about it.I’m looking forward to seeing what else you have to say on this subject.Thanks!- Amy Gahran

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4145 Amy Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4145 Great post Kent.You wrote: "I agree that popularity as a proxy for authority is flawed. The problem is that, at the moment, there is not a better mousetrap."Actually, it's not just flawed, it's entirely misleading -- IMHO. So it's not even a good mousetrap for now, because it's not really trapping mice. More like it's trapping cockroaches -- useful for it's own sake, but not the same thing as a mousetrap.You did make a very good point about celebrity endorsements confusing popularity (or at least familiarity) with authority. I've actually been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole "celebrity" phenomenon, and how that seems to be changing. I wrote a bit about that today on <a HREF="http://www.rightconversation.com/2006/11/buhbye_old_star.html" rel="nofollow">The Right Conversation</A>, and I'm sure I'll be writing more about it.I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have to say on this subject.Thanks!- Amy Gahran Great post Kent.You wrote: “I agree that popularity as a proxy for authority is flawed. The problem is that, at the moment, there is not a better mousetrap.”Actually, it’s not just flawed, it’s entirely misleading — IMHO. So it’s not even a good mousetrap for now, because it’s not really trapping mice. More like it’s trapping cockroaches — useful for it’s own sake, but not the same thing as a mousetrap.You did make a very good point about celebrity endorsements confusing popularity (or at least familiarity) with authority. I’ve actually been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole “celebrity” phenomenon, and how that seems to be changing. I wrote a bit about that today on The Right Conversation, and I’m sure I’ll be writing more about it.I’m looking forward to seeing what else you have to say on this subject.Thanks!- Amy Gahran

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4146 Amy Fri, 17 Nov 2006 20:09:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4146 Great post Kent.You wrote: "I agree that popularity as a proxy for authority is flawed. The problem is that, at the moment, there is not a better mousetrap."Actually, it's not just flawed, it's entirely misleading -- IMHO. So it's not even a good mousetrap for now, because it's not really trapping mice. More like it's trapping cockroaches -- useful for it's own sake, but not the same thing as a mousetrap.You did make a very good point about celebrity endorsements confusing popularity (or at least familiarity) with authority. I've actually been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole "celebrity" phenomenon, and how that seems to be changing. I wrote a bit about that today on <a HREF="http://www.rightconversation.com/2006/11/buhbye_old_star.html" rel="nofollow">The Right Conversation</A>, and I'm sure I'll be writing more about it.I'm looking forward to seeing what else you have to say on this subject.Thanks!- Amy Gahran Great post Kent.You wrote: “I agree that popularity as a proxy for authority is flawed. The problem is that, at the moment, there is not a better mousetrap.”Actually, it’s not just flawed, it’s entirely misleading — IMHO. So it’s not even a good mousetrap for now, because it’s not really trapping mice. More like it’s trapping cockroaches — useful for it’s own sake, but not the same thing as a mousetrap.You did make a very good point about celebrity endorsements confusing popularity (or at least familiarity) with authority. I’ve actually been thinking quite a bit lately about the whole “celebrity” phenomenon, and how that seems to be changing. I wrote a bit about that today on The Right Conversation, and I’m sure I’ll be writing more about it.I’m looking forward to seeing what else you have to say on this subject.Thanks!- Amy Gahran

]]> http://www.newsome.org/2006/11/inefficient-blogosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-4147 haydn Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:24:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/newsome/?p=3280#comment-4147 "This system leads to link baiting, manufactured blogospats and other engineered writing."I agree with pretty much all you've said and particularly this above. It's something I've touched on a lot and decided to act on by setting up wripe.net which reintroduces editorial choices to aggregation.We have a voting system there and as yet I'm not sure how to integrate that with ediotiral choices.The format and navigation might not be perfect either but if you navigate down via secontion heds (Wripe/living, N-Vision etc) you'll see the voting element.By and large though I think editorial is neglected too often and we need to seek out what technology can do for us and yet not forget that a point of view informs great writing and art, and it can't be engineered. “This system leads to link baiting, manufactured blogospats and other engineered writing.”I agree with pretty much all you’ve said and particularly this above. It’s something I’ve touched on a lot and decided to act on by setting up wripe.net which reintroduces editorial choices to aggregation.We have a voting system there and as yet I’m not sure how to integrate that with ediotiral choices.The format and navigation might not be perfect either but if you navigate down via secontion heds (Wripe/living, N-Vision etc) you’ll see the voting element.By and large though I think editorial is neglected too often and we need to seek out what technology can do for us and yet not forget that a point of view informs great writing and art, and it can’t be engineered.

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