Anil dissects the blogging cycle.
The basic format of the weblog medium has been pretty much set for more than 5 years now, and it's enough time that we can probably make some safe observations about bloggers' behavior....
A lot of these points could be debated, but this is what I've noticed as some of the common steps of evolution within a blogging community:
- What is blogging?
- Our community invented blogging!
- Blogging vs. Journalism
- Where are the women/minorities?
- You'll get fired!
- Think about the children!
- The technology is boring/unimportant.
- Will blogs change the world?
- What you do isn't blogging — do it this way.
- They don't deserve it!
I ran across this tonight. I'm not sure how I missed this when it came out, but he nails it cold. Great mini-essay (he has more to say about each bullet point).
Posted by Geodog at July 6, 2006 11:29 PM
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