on how the more things change
the more they stay the same
:
“I, too, think that web relationships replicate
meatworld relationships far more than they dismantle them. Like
bloggers link like bloggers, and largely ignore unlike bloggers; it
follows then that if you blog like prominent bloggers, or blog from
a similar position/situation/set of interests/etc., you’re more
likely to be of interest to and linked by those prominent
bloggers.”
while some would say the
“a-list-as-a-blogging-topic” is only interesting in how predictibly
periodicly it appears to rear it’s head, i do think it’s a good time to reflect on
clay shirky’s