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Sheer number of bloggers dilutes their value

Most bloggers do not follow the same rigor as journalists accountable to a newspaper which has some editorial oversight and liability.
That’s not to say that blogs and bloggers cannot provide valuable, timely and important information. However, FINDING that information in the sea of noise is very difficult.
I know the urge and trend is to [...]

Wild blog counts by Technorati are dangerous and don’t show real value

About a month ago, I spoke on a panel about blogging at the Texas Writer’s League annual conference. I spent some time talking about how people (i.e. David Sifry, uber-smart founder of Technorati) were claiming millions and millions of blogs were being created and talked about the exponential growth of blogging.
Then I put up [...]

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