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Re: Friday, August 18, 2006
Personally, I did find what Nick says has, sadly, some truth to it. I don't think it applies to you or a few other A-listers, but it does apply to many. I've met several A-list bloggers on-line and in person, and find that while many, are approachable and interesting to talk to, many others act like, and consider themselves, elites. You can tell who they are - you can feel them scanning you when you meet in person, as they decide if you are ignorable or not (the two basic categories of the pretentious). But categorizing and stereotyping is just playtime for the lazy mind, and, as you point out, backing up the categories with stats is just silly, as there are so many reasons why a blog gets the traffic it does. Anyway, IMHO you shouldn't personally consider yourself a target of the A-list acrimony, and I have proof as to why. You've linked to my z-list blog the past, and it was much appreciated. Not because the links boosted my site traffic (they didn't, actually :)), but I was flattered to have someone whose opinions I respected including me in their conversation. On my blog I just write for me. I don't and won't edit my posts with the intention of getting a link from you (or anyone), so you must have found what I had to say interesting. Other A-list bloggers would probably not bother to read my blog, or if they did, they probably wouldn't link to me or leave comments because I'm a blog-nobody and not "worth their time". Or, even worse, if I'm a blog-nobody who says something an a-lister disagrees with, then I'm dismissed as "link-bait", which has to be the ugliest category I've ever heard, and a portent of more ugliness to come in the current blogospere structure. In the blog world, as in life, things are a lot more rewarding if you think a little harder and look at individuals as individuals, not as members of some category. That goes of the A-listers as well as the Z-listers. But, unfortunately, that's not human nature, and we're busy dragging the hierarchy into the blogosphere.....
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