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Re: Saturday, February 18, 2006
Re: If you have a website that you post to every day, and you've amassed a sizable readership, good for you. But you are no more a gatekeeper than the New York Times is a homepage. What you are is a popular nerd, king of your very own soapbox. Congratulations! But being a gatekeeper in the age of the blogosphere is completely meaningless. After all, how valuable is it to be a gatekeeper in a world of infinite gates? It's about time somebody laid it out this clearly. Some people .. for a range of reasons, some rational and some not, getr larger readerships and higher profiles. I still believe that some of the people that complain about "gatekeepers" do so mainly because they would like to have a higher profile, even if they disclaim otherwise. What we all should do (and it's only an opinion) is spread around the links and pointage when somebody says something useful, whther it is aligned with your perspectives or beliefes, or not. I know (or believe) that you do this. I try to do this, but only have a very few readers .. so what .. I keep on blogging anyway, for myself and for anyway who may happen to scroll by. IOt's the fact that blogging continues to exist, grows, has persistence, enables connections that may grow into relationships, etc. ... all that stuff everybody has long since pointed out .. that matters, and will matter more as time goes by.
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