The below comes from Stephen’s delicious links. Nails something important in 34 (28 if you cut the intro patter) words. a great example of what I call “thlinking“:
Finding needles in the growing Blog Haystack? (by Jeremy Zawodny)
my thoughts on this are simple: blogs are the virtual representation of people, and thus – like people – are best discovered through other people. it’s not the only way, but still the best way IMO
Fraxas says:
August 17, 2005 at 3:02 pm
I agree 100%…if you’re looking for blogs to add to your aggregator. But that’s not the way I usually do it.
Most of the Live Bookmarks I have in Firefox are for places that I was linked to from a blog, but it usually takes two or three links from a source I already trust for me to think highly enough of a particular source to add it to my aggregator. So it’s not so much that I think to myself “crap, I really need a blog that tracks the left-handed frobnozzle industry!” and then go try to find one, as “wow, this dude has really interesting things to say about left-handed frobnozzles”.
james governor says:
August 17, 2005 at 3:12 pm
you know where to find the left-handed frobnozzle guy? excellent. I had been looking around. my clients keep asking for that. damned long tail…
Fraxas says:
August 18, 2005 at 5:35 pm
interestingly enough, Google has two results for “left-handed frobnozzle”, though none for “”left-handed frobnozzle”” (note quotes).