Snoozing through the Blogosphere

by Ken Yarmosh | July 17, 2006 | Posted in: News

I opened up my feed reader today to see that everyone thinks it’s necessary to write about the same thing:

- FeedBurner acquiring Blogbeat

- 100 Million Daily Videos served up by YouTube

- New Yahoo! Homepage Launches

I’m not sure if it’s just a ‘me-too’ mindset or what. Do bloggers really think their numbers are going to go down (or up) if they don’t cover these stories? Do they think they are reporters? There’s only a few blogs that truly offer “scoops” and news…the rest just become noise in my opinion.

And in other news, isn’t it interesting that so many in Big (Old) Media are now writing about these same stories? Now, I realize they are catering to an entirely different audience but they essentially are repackaging busted up blogosphere memes and running them as technology headlines.

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4 Comments On This Post

  1. Tricia says:
    July 18, 2006 at 3:20 am

    I’m glad someone brought this up…as a newbie blogger who is still finding my audience and fine-tuning the focus of the content I cover, I’ve sometimes felt compelled (but have generally resisted) to post on something just because it was “big news”, but after having read it twenty times already myself, I figure all my readers know it anyway, so what’s the point? The real challenge lies in expanding on a story or generating ideas rather than regurgitating headline news - of course that probably means fewer posts and (maybe) less frequent return visits, but in the end readers will come back if they know that what you post is always something worth reading…

  2. anthony says:
    July 18, 2006 at 7:01 am

    Hear, hear Ken!

    However, if you’d checked-in on my blog (July 17), you would’ve been treated to a post entitled “AIDS prevention: To briss, or not to briss: that is the question…”

    The reason my blogroll is comprised of less than 10 blogs is because I too have found that most blogs offer nothing more than “me too…noise”

  3. Ken Yarmosh says:
    July 18, 2006 at 9:34 am

    Tricia: right on. I came to the same conslusion quite some time ago.

    Anthony: I guess I was referring to the tech blogosphere but since I definitely dive into political blogs, the same also seems to hold true. Of course, you seem to churn original ideas at the drop of a hat!

  4. Joseph LeBlanc says:
    July 18, 2006 at 8:14 pm

    However, if you have some comments about a popular story in the Washington Post, it may be work it for the Technorati linkback they have going on.

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