March 6, 2005
metascoble
Robert Scoble (Man, I haven’t written about him in days– I must be losing my touch) responds to my recent “Metablogging is Dead” post.
I don’t disagree with Hugh. I’m trying to catch the Hughtrain. Metablogging is definitely out of style, as Hugh says. I’ll try to only do that kind of stuff over on our book blog. Of course, does talking about this here mean a new kind of metablogging? Notmetablogging? Hmmm.
I think talking about blogs is fine, I think finding them interesting is fine, but you have to remember the secret of French cuisine: Never let the sauce overwhelm the dish. What’s true with cooking is also true with blogging. And yes, Robert grasps this about as well anyone I can think of.
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A lot of the problem is that (most) bloggers enjoy thinking about/writing about/reading about metablogging. In the process, they completely forget that most of their readers don’t have blogs of their own, and the subject comes off as inside-baseball.
Good point, Beck. Seriously, I keep thinking the only who read my blog are the people who link to me or leave comments. A dozen readers or so a day, whatever.
In fact, it’s a bit more than that.
I hate to disagree with you, Hugh, because you are so fucking intimidating, so I won’t.
Hugh, you have finally lost it.
First you tell us that “markets are conversations”, and there is clearly a market for blogging springing up around us.
Now you’re saying that people who want to have conversations within this new market are over.
Surely, ergo markets are not conversations.
Huh?
Don’t be intimidated by Hugh. He does not appreciate criticism but I feel he has a good heart. Sometimes he forgets rule 26.
Winston Churchill: “Hopkins you were rude to ME!
Servant “Yes Sir but you were rude to me first“
Winston Churchill: “But I am a great man”