The closed blogosphere…

Ok, I won’t be shy. Have at it with the URL linked to my name!

Damn, that’s a nice blog! Subscribed!

How about a peruvian geek who writes in spanish? hey, there’s mi niche!
ha ha

ps: loved kevin’s site too… subscribed!

This is about a common platform for everybody within a neighborbood to blog, opine or discuss latest issues. Feedbacks invited.

JL: that looks like a nice blog, but I can’t read Spanish.

Jay: Cluckoo looks interesting!

palmit.commentary is Cale Bruckner’s blog – a place for commentary on technology, world events, industry news, the future, and politics; it’s a blog.

You asked – not sure I meet the requirement (interesting), but I couldn’t pass on the opportunity.

While it’s not a blog, I’d love to get your feedback on my pure .NET-based/SQL Server product, Mentations: http://www.mentations.com. It is one part RSS reader, one part dashboard, one part web service aggregator – delivering information at a glance via ‘dynamic pictures’. Still in beta and no help yet, but just right-click on stuff and you’ll quickly discover the functionality!

FeedMail Now! needs your help. I’m building a new community using RSS feeds for communication and I need a lot of adventurous people — http://www.feedmailnow.com — You’ll be able to say that you were there in the beginning…

Kevin Tofel’s blog shamed me. I was originally going to setup my blog on WordPress with all the bells and whistles, but ran into a database issue choosing between SQL Server and mySQL. Okay, time to ask my ISP for mySQL too.

Thanks Scoble! You are right, it is hard to break through. Here is a nice techie/music/link blog to look at.

What about beer?

I blog about java, ruby on rails, TDD, agile in general, ajax, and pretty much anything nerdy. Also the occasional politics and current affairs. And aqua teen hunger force (of course).
- Rob

I blog about creating machines that think.

… occasionally.

I blog about technology and my ruminations on life. I also have a blog about my new venture available at http://blog.flurrymail.com.

Keep up the good work Scoble.

Way to go Scoble – ever since you actually took the time to come and comment on my blog, I’ve kept reading – disagreements and all.

I write about usability and design, and occasionally get into things over my head.

Robert, while you’ve made a gracious offer, you’ve also essentially proven Squash’s point. People are only finding these blogs because you are linking to them.

That said, with this one post you are certainly doing more than most people to help others discover new blogs.

As far as Memeorandum goes, if I recall correctly, you have also pointed out its occasional circular self-referential nature.

Listen, it’s real easy to get discovered. If you’re interesting.

No. Interesting only last a few days, then you morph back to the familiar, the one(s) you have relationships with (you said such yourself per the Jason network). What matters per discovery is traffic, and consistent traffic at that. It’s the only fuel that the blogs run on. Don’t kid yourself about “interesting”, which is VERY subjective itself. And most of the real interesting stuff isn’t techie, and no way in heck you are going to rope some literary blog into the mix.

I don’t think Dave has ever been even remotely interesting, just shrill rants and ego-claims of vast ownership and contradictory posts, nearly daily. But you will stick around, as he grants traffic and you do blogger meet-ups. Being “interesting” is only a fleeting novelty.

But frankly the blogosphere, has routed around, not paying the tolls. And that’s a good thing. Nation-states forming apart from the self-appointed toolmaker traffic-dictator overlords.

I blog about Delphi on occasion. Yeah, we Borlandians haven’t all died out…

Robert, while you’ve made a gracious offer, you’ve also essentially proven Squash’s point.

I saw that too. But then it would have been ironic. And irony seems something most bloggers can’t process. But thanks for pointing it out.

Mike Warot has a tech blog, –Mike– http://mikewarot.blogspot.com/ with a focus on security and is hoping to garner a little more attention. Security is not my interest, but I’m sure it is to much of this audience. Check it out.

One point of clarification. I started this recent talk of the closed blogosphere with this post, which was the one before the one Squash is talking about today:

http://www.newsome.org/2006/01/why-its-impossible-to-build-new-blog.shtml

And in that post I made a point to say:

“Yes, there are exceptions. Scoble and JKOnTheRun being two that come to mind. Both seem to be really good guys and both seem to be doing the blog thing for reasons other than the prospect of a dollar.”

Scoble, you’ve done way more than your share to give exposure to new blogs, so I didn’t want you to think I was talking about you.

Peace,
Kent

Here’s my little corner of the world. It’s a mixed bag of topics depending on what’s on my mind.

http://www.theportermethod.com/blog

Somisguided.com is me. It’s about books and publishing mostly.

I agree with Robert though, if you’re interesting and know how to build an audience and have a conversation, then it doesn’t matter if someone is talking louder than you. It’s relevance that leads to popularity.

By the way Robert, I used to get the full blog post in Bloglines but now with your switch to WordPress I only get the first couple of lines. Not sure if that’s specific to Bloglines or if others are having the same problem.

I think that Interesting does only last for a little while… Consistently interesting last quite a bit longer. I write what is interesting to me. Feel free to disagree…

hmmm… Maybe I’m a poet as well?

Keep up the good work Scoble.

The key thing is CONSISTENTLY new and interesting. What happens is that someone like kevin from http://www.kevintwodotoh.com/ gets a few links

The question is why are you blogging ? It’s the downside of the attention mechanism (hey look at me, hear my side of the story, here’s my opinion). Its the geeks version of 14 year old teen angst (this is how I’d run Google, or MS or yahoo…)

Time is the most limited of resources (I’ll never see the time I spend on this entry again) and quite frankly, most of you (myself included) are not interesting enough for me to spend time bookmarking, let alone skimming or (heaven forbid!!) actually reading.

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. =)