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Voice and signal in the age of aggregation

A stray thought.
Standard advice for bloggers starting out: Find your voice and stick to it.
But how many blogs or bloggers - or Twitterers for that matter - could you identify by the text of a single post?
Rarely do I visit individual blogs. What I have is a couple hundred feeds in Google Reader - organized [...]

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Mine is only two weeks old but I hear the blogosphere is dead

Noah Brier surfaces this interesting fact: 94% of the 133 million blogs tracked by Technorati have not been updated in the last 120 days. He also points to Nick Carr’s post entitled “Who killed the blogosphere?”:
As blogs have become mainstream, they’ve lost much of their original personality… I was a latecomer to blogging… But even [...]

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