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Contrarian Blog Reading

Jun 26, 2005 10:11 PM
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Two things that will make me, unlike most folks, less likely to read your blog:

  • You write a lot. If you're profilic and brilliant, like Robert Kaplan, I'll read you religiously. If you're not, please skip the posts that aren't great. I don't have time to wade through all that shit.
  • You're popular. Again, the time factor. If you have something important to say, and have a ton of readers, odds are I'll hear it from someone else.

Which kind of merits a plug for my blogroll; check it out and you will likely find sites that are greatly underrated.


Comments: Contrarian Blog Reading

You, of course, recognize the irony in the fact that you spent the time to write a blog post about how you "don't have time" to read blogs that are too popular or too long.

There also is a curious amount of ego involved in describing how this blog entry describing your personal blog-reading habits merits a plug for your blogroll... or just even that you chose to write a blog post describing how your time is too precious to be unselective about the blogs you read... although it's cool that Jerry's website (http://chuckjerry.blogspot.com) is now "greatly underrated".

I find this line curiously phrased as well, on the top of the "Post a Comment" page: **HTML tags are automatically stripped out of your comments for security reasons. If you want to put a link to something, just enter the URL. We'll figure it out.** (Who's the "we", by the way?)


Posted by: Max on June 27, 2005 5:42 PM | permalink

"We" is me and anyone who bothers to read the comments.

Posted by: Joe Grossberg on June 27, 2005 8:01 PM | permalink

Ordinarily I would feel the same way, but I don't use RSS yet. When I manually go to a site, I am happy to see something new.

I think it's finally time for me to get RSS up and running. I think the best way for me to look at RSS is probably a web application with bookmarklets.

Posted by: Ben Atkin on July 3, 2005 2:33 AM | permalink

No more comments! Either someone has violated Godwin's Law, I'm tired of the discussion or, most likely, the ten-week window has closed. You can, however, contact me through email.