Blogs com
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Blogs.com is a great domain name. Always wondered why SixApart didn’t make more of it.
Blogs.com place to promote “well known” bloggers is interesting to me only as a variation of the same American herd mentality signaled by the like of People Magazine.
In the context of the site the featured writers are famous as bloggers. These are the so-called A-List bloggers who certainly read each other. That bloggers with large audiences point to one another does breed a sort of fame.
It is a thin and dubious fame. They guy who invented the Mosiac browser was a one hit wonder. That former minor TV actors acquire celebrity status in the land of blogs that doesn’t translate elsewhere indicates the quality of that status.
To me collecting these people with little in common reinforces the classic time wasting web surfing we usually try to outgrow.
Like most people I barely have enough time to keep up with the carefully selected material collected by my reader.
Not that I necessarily think Blogs.com will fail. Or that it is a bad thing. People like to be told what to read. They enjoy idling away the hours. And, if it makes them happy, who would I be to criticize.