June 06, 2003
Inequality in Blogland
The meta blog sites such as Technorati, Popdex, Daypop are actually bringing an strenghten the imbalance to of blogland, on the popular blogs and average blogs. It was like following the roadmap of music industry, where initially there is no channels for music publishing/marketing to reach to the public, and then later we have various billboard style listing of artists/songs. The path sound obviously, people need or is attractive to it. Did you ever notice this? Would it matter you? In my opinion, it’s a nature of media.
A well written piece by Clay Shirky, The FCC, Weblogs, and Inequality:
What is clear, however, is a lesson from the weblog world: inequality is a natural component of media. For people arguing about an ideal media landscape, the tradeoffs are clear: Diverse. Free. Equal. Pick two.
The question is, did we get the choice to pick?
June 6, 2003 12:06 PM | MovableType & Blogging[ Trackback URL for this entry: http://www.yowkee.com/cgi-bin/mt-tb.cgi/93 ]
I think you're confusing cause and effect. People form imbalanced networks, and A-lists happen - this is a consequence of equality of opportunity, and quality writing gets noticed. Consistency, too.
I created Technorati Interesting Recent Blogs and Interesting Newcomers specifically to deal with the fact that lots of interesting content was being written by people who were not on the "a-list". Technorati helps to expose those blogs based on jumps in their inbound cosmos.
Stay tuned, there's even more innovations coming. In the meantime, we're always interested in your feedback - send an email to feedback@technorati.com and let us know what we can do to make the service better.
Thanks for the plug. :-)
Dave
02:14 PM on June 6, 2003 · comment by David Sifry · #
Oh, yeah, maybe I wrote too fast. I don't intend to put these meta sites as the cause of the imbalance. I thought imbalance is the natural effect of human communication (and blog is kind of it). Did people have the choice since most people are ignorant and just follow?
But sure someone take up the job and do something. Good to see the effort of Recent Blogs and Interesting Newcomers. I would keep myself post on that. Thanks. :)
03:32 PM on June 6, 2003 · comment by yowkee · #
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