Quick rant over at Snarkaholic about the Feedster 500...another list of bullshit.
I continue to be amazed how people believe they should link to conglomoblogs like Huffington Post and Gawker, when blogging is about community as much as it is about information dissemination. Blogs like Huffington Post and Gawker aren't interested in community, aren't interested in those of us who are fleas on Technorati's tail, and are using a populist medium to further their MSM profiles. They do nothing for us...why do so many of us feel the need to do something for them??
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I continue to be amazed how people believe they should link to conglomoblogs like Huffington Post and Gawker, when blogging is about community as much as it is about information dissemination. Blogs like Huffington Post and Gawker aren't interested in community, aren't interested in those of us who are fleas on Technorati's tail, and are using a populist medium to further their MSM profiles. They do nothing for us...why do so many of us feel the need to do something for them??
posted by Tish Grier at 11:22 AM
7 Comments:
Personally... anything I link to has been linked because I want to read it. There are only two blogs that I read on a regular basis that isn't on my bloglines (and therefore in my links because I set it up to automatically pull from there). One is my secret pal's blog and I can't reveal myself until later this month, and one is my friend's secret blog that she doesn't want her family or certain "friends" to know about... but anyway... I'm all for people linking to something if they actually read it... but gratuitous linkage just for status or elsewise is just dumb. I agree with you that community is the key.
I link to people whose blogs I read, but I also link to blogs that pertain more topical information.
I guess that's what community is, isn't it? Commonalities.
Doesn't it seem, too, that there are commenting-communities? There are people I still feel akin to, though I never read their blogs, because I know them from when we both read the same blog. For example Gudy from Plain Layne probably shares a few people off my blogroll. I don't remember his blog, but I bet we'd have a lot to talk about when we met. We used to see each other's comments all the time. Intersections of people's blogrolls that are another way of looking at community that goes beyond "shared interest" such as liking the same kinds of movies. Because you've seen each other talking, maybe.
thanks ladies! I'm very interested in reading/hearing about how people link, why they link, the purpose and intention of the link.
Mary Hodder and I are supposed to have a telephone conversation about this tomorrow...there's all sorts of conversations about linking, and all sorts of algorithms being devised to measure linking, but nobody at that level's doing any kind of talking or reading of blogs to get a sense of what people are *really* doing with their links!
Sometimes the Ivory Tower has no clue what's going on with the rest of us.
Thanks again!
badge...
I mentioned to Mary about the intersection of blogs...and that alot of us just don't do all that much linking, but we read from each other's blogrolls and comments sections. That *this* is where the community and people are doing things.
I'm most interested in essay/lit/memoir types of blogs because they often don't have post links and are more inclined to have interesting blogrolls as well as great comments sections.
There's so much Technorati can't get into its little alogrithms...
Shalom Tish,
Yeah, I linked to the Huffington thing for about two days and then stopped reading because it was too much blather.
I constantly add and drop blogs on my lists because I want them to represent the best of what I'm reading.
Right now I'm searching for a journalism blog that I can stick with. So far I haven't had any luck.
B'shalom,
Jeff
Hi Jeff,
I like your approach to linking! It shows you are active with your blogroll, and that it isn't just sitting there gathering dust. I've heard alot recently from long-time bloggers that they rarely update their blogrolls because they either don't have the time or lost interest. My sense is that on should never lose interest in one's blogroll because the blogroll is important to the sense of building community and exposing your community to new bloggers.
I'm not thrilled with most journo blogs either. Most are way too polemic. The only one I like, that, I think is well-written, even if I don't always agree with him, is Andrew Sullivan. But I won't link to him because I know many people can find him other places. If I were to be able to suddenly, one day, acutally sit and have coffee with Andrew Sullivan, and he said "yeah, I'll stick you on my blogroll, I like the way you think," then I might add him.
I'm off to do more exploring.
:-)
T.
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