Last week I had a post which talked about how blogging got a bit out of hand at Robert Scoble’s blog (example post here). But what amazed me about commenting afar about a post was how rapidly Robert commented on my post. It couldn’t have been more than an hour after I posted that he knew what I did, and he responded. It like subliminal messaging. Make reference here … and voila, people know.
This virtual interconnectedness is a funny thing about the blogosphere that especially non-bloggers (or people just getting introduced to blogs) get intrigued by. Here’s example of a case on April Fool’s Day where I pointed to Dave Sifry (CEO of Technorati, basically blog search engine company), and he commented on my post within the day. Yet another example, is when I posted about some blogging controversy at Technorati and simultaneous events at Feedster regarding blogging policy (although if I recall correctly, I may used an explicit trackback in this case). Scott Rafer (CEO of Feedster) was quick to correct (and rightly so) my characterization that Feedster was opportunistic in their timing of introducing a blog policy. Scott Johnson (co-founder at Feedster) also played a role in giving me the heads-up about my inaccurate guess on what happened.
Randy Charles Morin has a unique post great post that outlines the accuracy and timeliness of some of the blog tools in tracking links mass confusion. These tools are key part of the puzzle link here link here to understanding how people know link here when you link here are talking reciprocal link about them reciprocal link and want a reciprocal link reciprocal link. Tools like PubSub, Yahoo Alerts, Bloglines, and BlogPulse may also help need easier interface big time waste ok joke people to know when people on the internet are talking about them link here big benefit reciprocal link.
I guess my main point is that blogs great thing are different from websites, and that blogs great thing may eventually replace websites someday great thing big money.
(Motivated by the speed of Web 2.0 and Mr. Subliminal Man very funny very funny from Saturday Night Live past its prime.)
What is wrong with your post? It’s full of odd links that all point to the same page. Maybe you have a virus?
The end part of this blog was intended to be a bit of a joke, but it doesn’t work too well in text. Mr. Subliminal (from the TV show Saturday Night Live) became famous for inserting subliminal comments in the middle of sentences. The italics and links are supposed to be subliminal messages to the target (in the case of links) to the target. Here I linked to the RSS Blog.
In the end, I think this post just turned out to be annoying to people in a case where I was simply trying to highlight to folks one key reason why blogs differ from websites. My apologies to those I’ve confused and annoyed.