The currency of blogs: pointers
Thanks to Doc and Chris for their kind notes. It’s interesting to be here. At which one realises that the currency of the blogosphere is pointers: I point to you, I give your blog more visibility. Interestingly it’s one of those digital currencies, because the pointing-to blog doesn’t lose any of its value by doing that pointing.
The other currency, of course, is timing: it’s important to be first, or failing that to be the most visible one who’s first. This is certainly the case in newspapers - examples abound of stories that have appeared in one paper or another but are massaged back to life by the application of spin and made to seem like they’re brand new and shiny.
- These posts might be related (the database thinks..):
- Saucer of milk for Neil McIntosh please.. (1 May 2007; score: 37.45%)
- Let the bug-ironing begin! Plus, does teaching Java dumb would-be programmers down? (2 January 2006; score: 32.04%)
- The three blogs you should read? Try three hundred (14 November 2007; score: 30.17%)
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