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October 18, 2004
Media Watch: The Blogosphere is more like a Plug-o-sphere...
...or an endless hallway of mirrors.
Early this morning I was doing a little bit of ego surfing when I ended up on Drew B’s take on Tech PR weblog. Drew was taking credit for a trackback that led me to the weblog of Charles Arthur, a tech reporter for The Independent in the UK.
I had left a comment with Charles that we should consider a trans-Atlantic hook-up of sorts. And that led Drew to conclude in his weblog, that there is indeed a JV underway—which triggered this latest ego-linked journey back to Drew’s weblog.
As I was writing a comment, thanking him for taking an interest in such things, it struck me again, just how incredibly self-promoting the Blogosphere is. I know bloggers who are constantly mentioning each other’s weblogs (not I) and dropping names all over the place. As I was saying to Ed (Zander,) just before he got the Motorola gig... “Ed, you need a bigger challenge than Silicon Valley can provide."
What rankles me about standalone journalism--as some like to call blogging--is that you have to do many jobs and one of them is publicist. And since blogging is personal, personal opinion, personality—you have to be a self-publicist. This is not a pleasant label at all. Having grown up in the British culture there is an unwritten understanding that “one should not blow one’s own horn.” I agree. It’s always better for someone else to do it for you.
So please send a link to Silicon Valley Watcher to your friends!
Here is Drew B’s excellent weblog:
Introducing Charles Arthur blog to Tom Foremski blog!
And here is Charles Arthur's weblog:
Charles...on anything that comes along
From the New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy:
blow one's own horn
Posted by Tom Foremski at October 18, 2004 08:35 AM
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