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Conversational incest
I was trying to make a point with my previous post, it's a problem that's popping up with more frequency.
There should be a law that only in extreme cases should you be allowed to link to the same person twice in the space of, lets say, five posts. Anything more is just brown-nosing / showing off / boring.
The point is that there is so much good shit out there, but we seem to be caught in an evil blog spin-cycle, and it's getting a tad tired.
I see the same links to the same sites day-in, day-out, we're getting fucking lazy people, it's time to go make new friends. Get new perspectives. We exist in cliques, just like high school. The pecking order is decided, we all know who the cool kids are, and we're just dying to make their acquaintance. We should be ashamed of ourselves.
I certainly am...!
Update: In the comments, Martin pointed me to this outstanding post, please go read it, it's wordy, but not one word is wasted.
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Comments
Mr. Mullholand (Rich..! is getting to damn hard to type) has a pretty valid point. Being a foreigner so to speak, alot of these posts seem to be a way for a very small clique of people to share ideas, essestialally alienating those who may find this site as i do to be educational, if that is the inteded purpose then I apologise. However,Seing that i love the role as devil's advocate, why the fuck aren't all of you who frequent this site, spreading you ideas globaly?(those of you who do please don't take offense.) There is a world out that could benefit from all of your intelligence, and rather than creatintg this "secret society" so to speak, do a little extra work to find outsiders who may find value in the forums and sites that you've all created. I've seen all of your work and it's awesome.
I admit fully that i too have fallen into the safety of like-minded individuals, but if we all take the time we waste doing meaningless shit throughout the day to seek out new people to share ideas with, wouldn't this be a bit more fulfilling at the end of the day? Might we all actually learn something? Feel free to rip me a new asshole, but this site deserves a bit more than a "social club" atmosphere. Despite all of the fun and funny ass posts, the missing link crew is too damn smart to have this site resort bar room chit chat. I'm a man dealing with below zero temperatures and 5 business books to absorb so give me what you got. I can take it. I'll probably regret this in the morning but what the hell.
Posted by: aaron | 19 Jan 2005 07:04:31
You're right, but the problem is a lot more widespread than simply this blog, the problem is that, even internationally we're seeing the same people link to the same people every other post. No-one is looking for the new blood, and don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting that we're that new blood, just that there is a lot of great content out there and we (all) need to find it, and spread the word. Just reading the same points by the same people commenting on the posts of a handful of bloggers is helping no-one, it's lazy and irresponsible...!
Posted by: Rich...! | 19 Jan 2005 09:21:20
Damn right.
"Social" groups will form everywhere, it's human nature, but I think all of us can benefit from increased variety. I've expanded my feed list by about 50% in the last month, and it's increased my knowledge and perspective substantially.
Paul Scrivens (one of the supposed A-list designer bloggers) raised this point a while back (excellent post, worth the read) - his point made me think about the amount of comments on my site. Sure, I have an ego, and I like the fact that celebrities might read my stuff every once in a while *looks over towards Jo'Blog*, but it shouldn't matter even a little bit.
What matters is that we converse intelligently about new ideas with new people - that's the only way to progress!
Posted by: Martin | 19 Jan 2005 10:55:30
That's good provocative stuff Rich! I would link to it but obviously I'd better not.
Posted by: Johnnie Moore | 19 Jan 2005 16:51:10
Johnnie, touche bro, touche...!
Posted by: Rich...! | 19 Jan 2005 17:06:57
But now that google has given the world "nofollow" you can link (or will soon be able to) without coming across as so much of a preening-wannabe-blog-pagerank-mana slut.
Posted by: MarkN | 20 Jan 2005 01:44:15
Yeah Mark, nofollow looks very cool, but I still wish people would link to people regardless of whether or not they're part of the royal family of blogging, a lot do, but more could...!
Posted by: Rich...! | 20 Jan 2005 02:21:04
I am guilty as charged. I am off to repent by linking here (my potential new friends?), as I have never done so before.
Spot on, Rich.
Posted by: S. Anthony Iannarino | 10 May 2005 04:24:16
