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Re: Thursday, July 5, 2007
Are you at all concerned that the live web is getting wider and shallower? There are a couple of things I notice about my own web experience that concerns me. My preferred means of news/information consumption is through my rss reader, but there is something about this that bothers me. I don't subscribe to hundreds of feeds, and the vast majority of those feeds were subscribed when I first started using a feed reader. So my sources of news are few, and they are not changing over time. My own consumption has not deepened as a result of rss technology and the blogosphere. Arguably it has gotten shallower as I get caught up in the topic-of-the-moment fed to me. Interestingly, I find myself hungry for the quality of professional journalism that writes a full story, as opposed to brief commentary. Hungry enough to pay for it, if it were available in the form that I want it (rss feed without advertising), at a reasonable price. This has become especially apparent to me as I try to promote my online business endeavor. I find myself trying to figure out how to do something catchy and novel in the moment to get picked up in the Blogosphere. The depth of my work -- the thought, the research, the trial and error, the lessons learned, the new ideas and insights, the motivation, the belief, the faith, the inspiration and the despair -- counts for very little on the live web. It's becoming like Hollywood, where you are either a star, or you are nothing. Where is the journeyman? the plodder? the tortoise? the subdued craftsman who works day after day mastering a few tools and perfecting the craft? There are responses to this message:
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