The next big social networking tool is... Thunderbird?

[Paul King]

I think my point is that blogging shouldn't ever *be* competitive. The "numbers 
game" I referred to is due to people exploiting a known bug in the system by 
simply putting up more posts in a subject area than anyone else, resulting in 
the system featuring one of their posts, usually chosen randomly. And yes, 
Wordpress frowns upon it and are trying to work around it. After all, they are 
open source, and are least likely to want to act as someone's advertising 
agency.

Anyone who wants to market themselves should look for another venue. Blogs are, 
as you say, a social network. If they want to advertise, they should buy ad 
space on WordPress.

Paul King

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> 
> > I am experimenting with a web log, and I am finding out what a
> > numbers game all of this is.
> 
> I guess there's something in that for people who want social marketing 
> rather than networking.  The situation I see is people who just want to 
> share their experience of living with a far-flung group of friends 
> (where 'friend' is a variable position on a set of scales representing 
> different areas of interest) using media that's beyond what we expect a 
> list-server to handle.
> 
> I have blog-style writings on-line as well as things that aren't quite 
> so volatile such as biographical and contact information of different 
> types, along with photos and music.  Those are scattered over at least 
> six sites at the moment, but there's nothing but information osmosis to 
> clue someone who liked my pictures (for example) that I might also have 
> a photography filter on another site.  Especially if it's someone who 
> has stumbled over the photos, rather than a person I know in Real Life.
> 
> I seriously don't care about competitive blogging, but I'd like a more 
> holistic way of organizing information than by content type and a 
> better way of communicating its existence.
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