I think this is a sign of both things to come and that the blogosphere has gotten huge.  PubSub has started grouping sites and feeds into affinity lists. 

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What does this mean?  Let's look at the bigger picture.  Blogs have in the last six months really become the influencers of popular thought and wisdom.  A good thing, IMHO.  They've gotten so big that now the way to keep up is to read the top echelon of sites to catch what's going on.  Hmm, wait.  Is this really a good thing?  Yes, and no.  Yes in that great writers/minds are going to get the attention they deserve (note, I'm not on any of the lists ... oh well).  No in that this could limit the range of discussion.

 

I've noticed that news has been a tad less interesting on Memeorandum of late.  I've also noticed that, boy I have to cull my feeds.  800 is way too much.  My reaction has been to focus on the folks who I know and then skip the rest.  Whoops.

 

End result.  I haven't been blogging lately.  I haven't even felt like blogging lately.  How does this tie into PubSub lists?  Simple.  If you're in law, fashion, pr, or library science ... here is the cream of the crop to read.  Start there and work out.  Start with the people who shake things up, write awesome stuff, follow the links to the source articles, then present your take.  Maybe, with this approach all of us will start to see more and more cool stuff.  Maybe we'll be less likely to re-write and re-report what the rest of the crowd is doing.

 

I hope so.  I certainly need some inspiration right now.

 

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