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

[R.T.]

IMO, the *real*, *sustainable* numbers are dictated by content (it "is
king", to parrot the meme).

If this "featured article" system is broken, I have a trivial
solution: stop using it!

Readership is usually gained via network of trust anyway. I read Joe's
blog, he links to Jane's blog, I like the link, so I subscribe to
Jane's blog too. (To bring this back on topic briefly, this parallels
the design of git and the kernel!)

Even if I'm fooled into reading some seo-hacked blog, as long as the
content is garbage, I'm not coming back for seconds. Kiss. of. death.



On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Paul King <sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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