Power laws vs. quality blogging

George Siemens on Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality by Clay Shirky:

This article is probably an accurate depiction of the difficulty facing bloggers who blog in order to be widely read. I think a more accurate image of blogging in the future will be millions of bloggers with a handful of readers each. For example, I would love to have wide readership…but that is secondary to the main reason I blog – to learn, grow, share, express, reflect, create a history of thought (mainly for myself), etc. If my goal for blogs is readership, Clay Shirkly’s article is accurate. If my goal is to use blogging as a learning tool for myself and a few others, then this assessment of blogging is not relevant.

I share the same feeling: what if you blog not for quantity, but for quality? I don’t care how many people read my blog if I get a few with insightful comments.

PS The article is a good read.

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