Comments on: Another shot in the Blog Revolution? Few links if by land and none if by sea. http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/ Have Blog. Will Travel. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:54:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: horatiox http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-77224 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 18:21:19 +0000 http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-77224 “A list” sites are very reluctant to link to sites outside of their frames of reference.

Good point, but not sure “frame of reference” describes the problem. More like “outside of their cyber-country club” or something. Duck for the blogging-Peoples front!

Serio, it’s akin to the situation faced by the talented losers doing property hustles in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross: the Ed Harris character turn cynics, and realizes that the real estate market (if not laissez-faire economics) depends on insider connections, family connections, country-club connections. I think it’s the same in most computing situations and even trickles down to blogs.

Harris wants to be the hip progressive, yet the game doesn’t allow for that: it needs, indeed, depends upon sharks (and the alternative to sharkocracy, e.g socialism of various sorts, demands far too much). Or something like dat. Blogs then might be read as symbols of the absurdities of laissez-faire and consumerism itself.

]]> By: Blog Revolution Needed? « Joe Duck http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-77222 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:13:21 +0000 http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-77222 [...] Revolution Needed? I think I’m too lazy to start the blog revolution some of us were carping about last year, but I hope somebody else does [...]

]]> By: JoeDuck http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-72081 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 23:29:57 +0000 http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-72081 Melissa I agree, and it would be neat if the “A list” was more generous rather than competitively focusing on building their communities to the exclusion of smaller sites.

The solution? I think we need a sort of “blog guild” where people do their own thing at their own blogs/sites, but then have extensive cross pollination with others. TechMeme and Technorati help facilitate this because they basically pull together the blogs talking about the same stuff. What I’d like to see are people steering away from single site “communities” and towards a global blogging community that is stitched together via Open Social or other portable ID features that move around as the person surfs around.

]]> By: melissadonovan http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-72076 Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:18:46 +0000 http://joeduck.com/2008/01/20/another-shot-in-the-blog-revolution-few-links-if-by-land-and-none-if-by-sea/#comment-72076 I even see B list blogs withholding links. I’m not sure if they get too busy and forget to link out or to accredit their sources, or if they just suddenly get arrogant and feel that it’s no longer necessary now that they’ve reached some plateau of success. I’d like to see A list bloggers do more to promote up-and-comers, share with readers what blogs they read by reinstating blogrolls, and just generally continue to build community. However, it looks unlikely at this point.

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