So spake Clay Shirky, about the blogging world and how notwithstanding the hype of the media critics, broadcast seems to happen even when the threshhold to entry for publishing drops to nil. People like Glenn Reynolds have a disproportionate amount of influence and power -- 50% of blog readership is concentrated on 5% of weblogs. This will only increase he says. But he says it way more articulately than that.
Last night Boyfriend and Ernie the Attorney cooked up a plot to jump out of an airplane together in May. Sheesh.
UPDATE: Those looking for a better explanation of what Clay said, and other smart folks' thoughts on the matter, can go read Richard McManus's blog about it here.
I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here. Glenn Reynolds, despite running one of the more popular blogs, doesn't have that much 'influence' or 'power' in the blogging world, at least not in any worthwhile sense. If he speaks, a bundle of people will listen, but they needn't follow unless what he says is particularly wise.
Besides, a lot of the blogging world, a lot of that 95%, doesn't exist for the sake of an audience.
Posted by: A. Rickey | October 18, 2003 at 02:29 PM
What is up with Shirkey? What is his point? Is he trying to equate the readership/writership of blogs to the percentage of viewer/owner relating to traditional media? When each form of outreach is seen from a motive perspective the relationship between writers or owners to viewers takes on completely different meaning.
Posted by: stephen bates | October 18, 2003 at 02:57 PM