Dori Smith of the “invisible” Backup Brain posted the following bit today:
And I’ve ranted before about how this blog doesn’t count in many lists because it’s not a single-person, single-topic blog. If it was just Tom writing about politics or Macs, he’d get more links. If it was just me writing about being a Mom, I’d get more links. But hey, this blog went up long before there was a “right” way to do things, and we have a lot of different interests, and if something we post doesn’t interest you, skip it. There’s no test; you’re not required to read every post. But please, do give us credit for the ones we do write, not one out of ten or ones that we don’t even write.
So wait… There’s a “right” way of doing this? Crap. And it looks like Dori is implying that it is different from the way Tom and Dori are doing it, which is basically the way I do it (minus the two person blog thing). Double-crap. ;-)
She’s right though. People on blogs are less diligent about citing their sources than they should be. Although, I think some of this is coincidence caused by the “group-mind” of the blogosphere. We’re all participating in a relatively small sample size of ideas and thoughts being bounced around, so we all get the same ideas around the same time from time to time…
UPDATE: Hah. Tom’s post is funny. Made me read all the comments to Dori’s original post. Scoble says, “I read more than 1300 blogs.” I don’t buy it. He probably skims more than 1300. I doubt he really reads all of them. It’s just not very realistic or bloggish.
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She’s also right about the multiple author thing…think about TUAW and it’s affect (or lack thereof) on your personal technoratti rank.
Actually, I think my traffic and Technorati rank has doubled since TUAW…