The (Capit-)A-list Bloggers
Posted by: Shrikant Joshi in Blogs, Community, Ideas, Opinions, WebThere is always gonna be an invisible glass-ceiling stopping you from reaching there. If you are a novice and you want to break the glass ceiling, you have to either try VERY hard or circumvent it somehow. There is no short-cut of course. The only way to ‘circumvent’ it is to somehow grab the attention of any one of the elite class. If you have done that, you have done the hard work. The rest is simply smooth sailing.
So how do you grab their attention? There are two ways of doing it:
1. Flame them - Oppose them vehemently so that they rant against you. Like someone said, there’s no bad publicity, only publicity.
OR
2. Claim them - Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Give them good references and you will be rewarded someday.
Are you done reading it? Very well, now follow these instructions:
1. Replace every occurence of the words ‘humans’ or ‘people’ with the word ‘Blogs’
2. Replace every occurence of the word ’society’ with the word ‘Blogosphere’
3. Replace every occurence of the word ‘money’ with the word ‘traffic’
4. Replace every occurence of the phrase ‘elite class’ with ‘A-list’
Surprised, eh?
Yes, apparently, you can treat blogs the blogsphere on par with human evolution human society. Just as the human society is divided into classes, so are blogs. And, every blog is a part of some closed community.
The Flame approach worked for these guys who started off as a rant blog. Look where they are today - among the top 10 in WordPress Blogs.
Like society, there is no dearth of writing talent in the Blogosphere. It just takes some time to be discovered and some discoveries happen too late. Some happen too early.
Some don’t happen at all.
I think I know what hapens to mine.
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March 1st, 2006 at 4:25 pm
I think you’ve nailed it… the inequities of society and economics translate directly into the blogosphere. Is is, after all, social media, so it reflects society at large. Clay Shirky has interesting thoughts on this (google his name and you should find some cool stuff).
March 3rd, 2006 at 10:54 pm
Yes, I can agree with that.
For me, I’m resting my hopes on my brand new Pie (Primes in e) program to break the glass. Frankly, I don’t count on it