More questions than answers from way out on the long tail

Experiment in Community Blogging

Andrew Parker of Union Square Ventures recently invited guest writers to submit to his blog in an experiment he’s conducting on community blogging. Looks like not many people took him up on it, but never one to turn down experimentation, I gave it a shot and today discovered that he’d put up my post.

For those not inclined to click through, my basic point was that guest blogging doesn’t necessarily make any sense because blogs are an interesting phenomenon precisely because they are personal and primary — that is, they are generally about the first-person experiences of specific people who have real personality and real perspective, in stark contrast to much of what we are fed by the MSM.

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