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Re: 2008/04/20/the-proverbial-echo-chamber/

WelcomeBackRosenthal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:17:34 -0000

I hear what you're saying IT. But why, via making a commenters, should we have to wrestle a conversation away from one of the lemming bloggers. It's on the blogger to be original.

I get up and write an original piece 6-7 days a week. I come up with and idea, think it through out, research (at the web level, I ain't gonna lie), and write. Bloggers all covering the same thing is like watching TV coverage. This piece uses the polite word "Redundancy" but I'd use "lazy."

Re: 2008/04/20/the-proverbial-echo-chamber/

IdeaTagger — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 18:47:24 -0000

I think that the interactive nature of the blogosphere, i.e. the fact that readers can comment makes it more prone to the echoing you describe than traditional one-way media.

Comments demonstrate reader interest and generate further posts either in reaction to those comments or to try and capitalise on the interest shown. It's no bad thing in my view.

Re: 2008/04/20/the-proverbial-echo-chamber/

WelcomeBackRosenthal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 17:08:10 -0000

Yup!
This is positively the only thing I don't like about the blog world. SO many people just jump on whatever is the latest news and write the exact same pieces. They might as well be traditonal media and the waty they regurgitate press releases now.

Problogger says he like Twitter, then Shoemoney, then Johnchow. All of them say they don't get it, but if they other guy is using it, then they better too. Alexa says they changed the formula, then 500 Alexa articles come out. My feeling is it's like watching somebody try and balance a bunch of marbles on a plate, "let's all roll this way, now that way..."

I thought the whole thing about blogging was to give voices to individuals, where at least we can kinda have a level playing field (if we can get the traffic, but that's a totally separate thing).

Re: 2008/04/20/the-proverbial-echo-chamber/

Mike Baccarat — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 16:47:49 -0000

My opinion is that the information from blogs on the net is just as important as what we get in magazines, newspapers etc.