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6 months ago
in Twitter: We Need Search By Authority on Loic Le Meur
Rush Limbaugh has "power" due to his "followers" (i.e., listeners) but he's still a big, fat windbag. More than 50% of the US electorate agrees and laugh at his buffoonery.
The kicker? He was more 'relevant' when the Bush Administration was wielding actual power. Limbaugh still has the same base of followers (and is being paid commensurate with his audience) but the current mood in the country automatically devalues his opinions.
So authority, reputation, linking, *and context* matters. The first three can be measured...but what about that last one? How are we to know that some tweeter isn't all over last month's thought leadership? Or that someone has a lot of followers because he was with a big software company and co-wrote a book, but is a mile wide and half an inch deep technically? Or even that tweeter is trying to influence or direct some initiative?
As one of my mentor professors once said, "Always consider the source, their motivations, and the context within which they're pontificating." Wise words.
The kicker? He was more 'relevant' when the Bush Administration was wielding actual power. Limbaugh still has the same base of followers (and is being paid commensurate with his audience) but the current mood in the country automatically devalues his opinions.
So authority, reputation, linking, *and context* matters. The first three can be measured...but what about that last one? How are we to know that some tweeter isn't all over last month's thought leadership? Or that someone has a lot of followers because he was with a big software company and co-wrote a book, but is a mile wide and half an inch deep technically? Or even that tweeter is trying to influence or direct some initiative?
As one of my mentor professors once said, "Always consider the source, their motivations, and the context within which they're pontificating." Wise words.
1 year ago
in Future-safe archives (Scripting News) on Scripting News
I just suggested the exact same thing to Oliver Starr....going out to collect and collate all of Marc's digital breadcrumbs to preserve them for his children and the grandchildren that will, sadly, never know him in person.
--Steve
--Steve
2 years ago
in Do A-list bloggers have a responsibility to link to others? on Scobleizer
Oh pleez, oh pleez...link me.
Actually, I always wonder what constitutes blog content that's worthy of attention. Is it being concise? Pithy and witty? Living in the Bay area? Looking really great in a tight sweater?
For shits-n-giggles, the last week of December I went back through *all* of my posts dating back to Dec of 2004 when I started. I also listened to most of my podcasts (though scrubbed through stuff even *I* now find boring). It sort of saddened me that so much stuff I'm proud of may never be read and I feel pretty good about most of it.
Major attention isn't the goal. Putting valuable perspective into the mix is. I guess I always wonder how a guy like you -- who gets hundreds of emails -- expects to find someone like me (even though we interacted a bit after that post Hot, Naked Geeks: http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2006/02/hot_nak...).
Keep lookin' and turnin' over rocks. Mine is probably under a boulder...but check it out: http://www.iConnectDots.com
Actually, I always wonder what constitutes blog content that's worthy of attention. Is it being concise? Pithy and witty? Living in the Bay area? Looking really great in a tight sweater?
For shits-n-giggles, the last week of December I went back through *all* of my posts dating back to Dec of 2004 when I started. I also listened to most of my podcasts (though scrubbed through stuff even *I* now find boring). It sort of saddened me that so much stuff I'm proud of may never be read and I feel pretty good about most of it.
Major attention isn't the goal. Putting valuable perspective into the mix is. I guess I always wonder how a guy like you -- who gets hundreds of emails -- expects to find someone like me (even though we interacted a bit after that post Hot, Naked Geeks: http://www.iconnectdots.com/ctd/2006/02/hot_nak...).
Keep lookin' and turnin' over rocks. Mine is probably under a boulder...but check it out: http://www.iConnectDots.com
3 years ago
in Dave Winer calls John Dvorak a liar on Mathew's comments
John, John, John...indistinguishable from Ann Coulter? I could't resist this: http://borsch.typepad.com/ctd/2006/06/john_c_dv...
3 years ago
in Shall we Gather at the (funding) river on Mathew's comments
Nice article....I'm amazed by how I'm finding links to aggregation sites everywhere! How many are in this game? What are their competitive differentiators? The differences seem few and far between.
Still, I'm on the hunt for one that smartly aggregates so that I can have stuff at-my-fingertips. Did a blog post yesterday about this too: http://borsch.typepad.com/ctd/2006/01/informati...
Aggregating links is easy. Putting them in to some new form is easy too. What's hard is parsing, analyzing and presenting content within those links. User-centric ranking sites (e.g., Digg) are pretty cool, but what would be cooler would be to have this kind of social promotion *after* the machine parsing occurred...giving a reader more targeted and higher value content.
I'm growing weary of all the aggregators.
--
Steve
Still, I'm on the hunt for one that smartly aggregates so that I can have stuff at-my-fingertips. Did a blog post yesterday about this too: http://borsch.typepad.com/ctd/2006/01/informati...
Aggregating links is easy. Putting them in to some new form is easy too. What's hard is parsing, analyzing and presenting content within those links. User-centric ranking sites (e.g., Digg) are pretty cool, but what would be cooler would be to have this kind of social promotion *after* the machine parsing occurred...giving a reader more targeted and higher value content.
I'm growing weary of all the aggregators.
--
Steve
