Comments on: Preferring BlogWorld to Flogworld http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/07/31/preferring-blogworld-to-flogworld/ Same old blog, brand new place Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:46:52 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rick Calvert http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/07/31/preferring-blogworld-to-flogworld/comment-page-1/#comment-73964 Rick Calvert Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:42:16 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/07/31/preferring-blogworld-to-flogworld/#comment-73964 Thanks for the link Doc, and we are very glad to have you joining us this year. Personally I am with you and prefer the blogging for passion vs. blogging for business purposes but we realize there are numerous communities and nuances to the Blogosphere. For our event to represent the entire Blogosphere we need all of those different forms of content creators there. We are particularly proud to have Professor Perlmutter and his peers be a part of the event this year. Thanks again and.... Blog on! Rick Calvert, CEM CEO & Co-founder BlogWorld & New Media Expo Thanks for the link Doc, and we are very glad to have you joining us this year.

Personally I am with you and prefer the blogging for passion vs. blogging for business purposes but we realize there are numerous communities and nuances to the Blogosphere. For our event to represent the entire Blogosphere we need all of those different forms of content creators there.

We are particularly proud to have Professor Perlmutter and his peers be a part of the event this year.

Thanks again and….

Blog on!
Rick Calvert, CEM
CEO & Co-founder
BlogWorld & New Media Expo

]]> By: Mike Warot http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/07/31/preferring-blogworld-to-flogworld/comment-page-1/#comment-73916 Mike Warot Fri, 01 Aug 2008 16:00:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/doc/2008/07/31/preferring-blogworld-to-flogworld/#comment-73916 Doc, I think one of the root causes of the flogworld is the economics of attention. When someone like me posts a photo on their blog, etc... they might get a response from a family member, etc... but that's it. Because they don't have a large audience, they never get feedback on anything.... which is discouraging and depressing. Guys like to solve problems, we're taught not to comment on things unless we can solve a problem, or have our 2 cents to throw in to a discussion. This is why we make crappy bloggers, we're not good at the relationship thing, with lots of feedback. We're also impatient... it takes YEARS to find an audience, we're used to getting new skills by working hard, the harder we work, the faster we get better.... blogging isn't like that. When you've got no traffic, it also doesn't make sense to put things in separate blogs... so the audience you do have gets a lot of stuff they don't care about... which discourages them as well. In my own case I've realized this and am in the process of separating out my areas of interest into different blogs. Most of them get NO hits on a given day... and one or two every once in a while thanks to random web searches. Is it really worth it? Do we have a voice in this bold new world or not? From out here on the long tail, it's VERY hard to tell. I think the #1 thing we can all do is to make it a point to at least leave 1 comment per day on someone's person blog. Like complements, they only have value if they say something positive, and are true. In other words, The love we share, is the love we receive. Doc, I think one of the root causes of the flogworld is the economics of attention. When someone like me posts a photo on their blog, etc… they might get a response from a family member, etc… but that’s it. Because they don’t have a large audience, they never get feedback on anything…. which is discouraging and depressing.

Guys like to solve problems, we’re taught not to comment on things unless we can solve a problem, or have our 2 cents to throw in to a discussion. This is why we make crappy bloggers, we’re not good at the relationship thing, with lots of feedback.

We’re also impatient… it takes YEARS to find an audience, we’re used to getting new skills by working hard, the harder we work, the faster we get better…. blogging isn’t like that.

When you’ve got no traffic, it also doesn’t make sense to put things in separate blogs… so the audience you do have gets a lot of stuff they don’t care about… which discourages them as well. In my own case I’ve realized this and am in the process of separating out my areas of interest into different blogs. Most of them get NO hits on a given day… and one or two every once in a while thanks to random web searches. Is it really worth it?

Do we have a voice in this bold new world or not? From out here on the long tail, it’s VERY hard to tell.

I think the #1 thing we can all do is to make it a point to at least leave 1 comment per day on someone’s person blog. Like complements, they only have value if they say something positive, and are true.

In other words, The love we share, is the love we receive.

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