Philip Greenspun is the discussion leader for Shirky's Power Law.
- Readership and weblogs: why my poker game is not as well attended as the casino.
Properties of web log. Why did you start your web log..
- Literary outlet. 20 or 30 page article don't fit in print, so the web is the only place to publish.
- Don't have to convince editor to print idea. (But could do own xerox magazine)
- Starting a discussion: comments
- Support 3 paragraph idea
- Different ideas
- Private community
- To create a record
- People want to be heard
- How do you breakthrough the powerlog? It is envable. [Ray, I think it is all about positioning. In other words, pure market. In otherwords, you need to be a market leader, so create a new niche.]
- Is lack of money help breakthrough? No one has funds to use marketing to stay on top.
- Constantly new stuff makes a difference. Number of links. When I wrote about my cat, lots of attention.
- Getting rich by being a blog ISP is not real.
- Bob numbers: 1.1 million blogs per day. Power Law does work in numbers. Looking at top 1000, in lower range there is a lot of movement and spikes, but top rank is rock solid using like from posts to other sites.
- Is is quanity or quality of you blog? Can you afford to do it as your only job.
- Lot of leaders are newspapers or columnist.
- Arguement about links equating to traffic
- You want more people to read your stuff.
- How many people have subscribed to my feed is what is important to me
- 10 times as many unique RSS visitors
- How much will blog content be considered valuable given the test of time?
- Barrier of entry to publish is much lower than print publishing
- Pubsub offered to run different analysis if any one had any ideas.
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