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Wed, 26 May 2004
Ideas as a power law...
Scoble brought up this post by Richard McManus on the Fractal Blogosphere. I really liked Joi Ito's notion of applying the power law to ideas instead of to people.
I definitely resonate with McManus' goal of
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... producing sufficient quality ideas and memes ...I read blogs for the ideas -- the content. In order to facilitate that, I use an aggregator, which strips away some of the personality. I no longer see the designs that people have labored so hard over. While I certainly appreciate the designs, it's the quality of the ideas that really grabs me.
I also read blogs for ideas and mostly to keep in touch with certain people (who may not even know me) because their lives and the things they're thinking about day-to-day are really interesting.
It's ironic, though, since over half of the content of my blog is "filler" for the sole purpose of having enough content to better "load-test" pyblosxom.
I think it brings up an interesting point, though. If you write an entry, then a few days later decide the entry's contents don't really flow right (maybe you realize the idea in the entry wasn't a very good idea), should you weed out the entry? I see a lot of angst against people who "edit" their blogs in the blogosphere. Is it better to sit on an entry for a week so that it bakes sufficiently before posting it?
Posted by will at Thu May 27 08:13:12 2004
It's ironic, though, since over half of the content of my blog is "filler" for the sole purpose of having enough content to better "load-test" pyblosxom.
I think it brings up an interesting point, though. If you write an entry, then a few days later decide the entry's contents don't really flow right (maybe you realize the idea in the entry wasn't a very good idea), should you weed out the entry? I see a lot of angst against people who "edit" their blogs in the blogosphere. Is it better to sit on an entry for a week so that it bakes sufficiently before posting it?
Posted by will at Thu May 27 08:13:12 2004
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