The closed blogosphere…

I wasn’t going to comment, but I must have before because the comment fields were all filled in. =)

I think getting discovered is hard, but have to ask why you want to be discovered? Usually, in my experience, the really interesting people are discovered when they aren’t trying to be discovered. There are interesting people who work at getting noticed, but if you spend your time blogging to be noticed, are you really blogging what you want to say to the world? If so, hats off to you.

If I write what’s in my heart and mind day in, day out, I’m guessing Robert Scoble would probably not read my blog very often, if at all. Why? I don’t know much about tech stuff and don’t write about it (though I sometimes link to stuff about it). While it may be otherwise, I’d be surprised if he was interested in what I blog. I read Scoble and some others of similar theme because I like tech and hearing about what’s out there.

Someone commented earlier that interesting is subjective and they’re right on the money there. Just because an A-list blog doesn’t find you interesting enough to link to doesn’t mean you aren’t interesting, you just aren’t interesting to them. You could have twice as many readers as an A-list blog who just don’t blog themselves and not know it.

But it also doesn’t mean you can’t participate in the conversation with the rest of the world. =)

Hey Sco,
Do give my blog a look and gimme your comments, I’d love hearing them. Thanks
http://chronotron.wordpress.com

and It’s better now that you have changed everything to size 2.

~ CC

My techie blog is at
webservices-stuff.blogspot.com
It’s not just webservices stuff and it covers old-school technology like Crystal Reports and bread and butter account systems.

I blog about Business Intelligence Platforms as it’s my lifeblood, passion, and (grin) employment. I also love talking about SOA, other Web 2.0 trends, and Identity. Come visit!

Wow… here I am, learning the ropes of effective blogging, checking out my referral logs (which aren’t spammed to death yet) and here I am thanks to Dave…. cool! (Thanks Dave!)

Robert… I want to see a completely secure OS demonstrated onstage, and on the Internet by January 2010. Something unbreakable, that doesn’t need a virus scanner or firewalls to make it secure. Something that can run any random application without taking out the machine. I believe it’s possible, just not with the current ACL security model.

I’m willing to do what it takes to make it happen. I’d prefer Open source… but not if it gets in the way.

–Mike–

Digg’s not closed. Anyone can submit a story to Boing Boing or Slashdot, etc. etc. I don’t buy the story that good writers can’t be discovered. It may take a little work, but if the quality of your writing is good and you write interesting things you are not limited because of A list bloggers or things like Memeorandum.

Hi,

My blog is primarily a documentation of my University final year. It focusses on my interest in mobile social technologies, and I’m doing a lot of work in Java (J2ME), personal networking, etc. for my final project, and other minor projects.

One of these projects is transience, which is a very early prototype of some technologies I am working on for future use. Please feel free to take a look at the blog send any feedback!

Unpopular – The “D” List

I’m going to take all of the sites that are mentioned in these comments and put them on The “D” List.

http://www.voiceoftech.com/unpopular

Feel free to submit more through the site. If I post your site and you don’t want to be listed, shoot me an email at swhitley@voiceoftech.com and I’ll take it off.

I blog about Windows grid computing, and software development, code samples, and business from a small company perspective. URL below. Thanks Robert.

If you’re starting a micro-ISV (a self funded software startup) you might want to visit a brand new site: http://mymicroisv.com. It part blog, resources and home for some of the interviews and all of the files from my new Apress book, Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality.

I think one of the more interesting things I’ve come across lately, and which you’ll find useful too Robert, is the OPod OPML-RSS widget. Its the only browser based tool I’ve seen so far which seamlessly moves between OPML and RSS browsing/reading.

http://eurekaman.com/opod/

Okay, I’m late to the party but today I released Bleezer (www.bleezer.com), a multi-platform blogging client. Post to any blogging service from any platform. It’s been tested on Windows, Mac, and Linux, and now on BlackBerry as well.

Oh yeah, it’s free too.

Does that sound like something interesting?

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