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Monday, December 13, 2004
+ Wait - Can't 
| | Dave: Sometime pretty soon (praise Murphy) we'll ship an open source (GPL) outliner that knows OPML and the Web very well. |
Sad ending
Among the biggest plankton in the ocean
| | The piece has been in the mill for awhile. (Thanks to Steve Rubel for being the first to let me know it was up online.) I think my quotes in it were gleaned from a phone conversation with Steven during one of my trips back and forth to the Bay Area last month. For a short while early this month there were plans to shoot another photo for the cover of the edition, but they decided to go with something more business-y. I don't blame them. |
| | For what it's worth, I've never thought of myself as an "A-list" blogger, and I've disliked the distinction ever since I first heard it uttered. |
| | I was on academic and social Z-lists from kindergarten through college. Lemme tell you, there's nothing like belonging to an out caste to give you a lifelong disdain for all caste systems, even if they're just one way among many to make sense of a complex topic (which is what we have with this A-list blogger stuff, and why I think this piece by Steven is a good one). |
| | One of the reasons certain bloggers are popular, I suspect, is that the blogosphere isn't high school. Coolness might cause a few links; but most links come either from having something interesting to say, or from passing along something interesting that somebody else has said. |
| | I've been doing some of both since 1999, which is why this blog is now graced with enough inbound links put it in Technorati's Top 100. |
| | But let's also remember that Technorati follows close to 5 million blogs. And that David Sifry (also quoted by Steven) has stats showing that the vast bulk of links happen amidst members of "The Long Tail". |
| | With few exceptions, bloggers are individuals. Jounalistically speaking, they're single-celled animals. Being an alpha blogger is therefore akin to being an alpha amoeba, or an alpha paramecium. |
| | I don't mean that as a put-down of blogging; but rather as a way of getting some perspective on what "alpha" means in a 'bet that's seven figures long, and runs horizontally, not vertically. |
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