Comments on: Looking into the blogosphere through a sporting lens: part I

By: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Surprise: Another journalists hates the blogosphere

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 15:49:25 +0000

[...] Globe and Mail website. While I’ve written about this topic fairly extensively before (see here, here, and here in particular), a few of her points – all centered around the negative effect blogs [...]

By: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Comments: valuable contributions or ramblings of the inebriated homeless?

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:15:07 +0000

[...] 15th, 2008, 10:15am A little while ago I wrote a two-part series called “Looking into the blogosphere through a sporting lens” (part 2 is here). The purpose of the series was to look at some questions underlying a [...]

By: Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Looking into the blogopshere through a sporting lens: part II

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:11:37 +0000

[...] couple of weeks ago I wrote about a story that was buzzing all over the web – with most of the focus being placed on the over-the-top [...]

By: Ken Leebow

Ken Leebow — Thu, 22 May 2008 22:02:25 +0000

Denis,

It looks like we have our own personal thread here. After watching Jeff Zucker on Charlie Rose, I think all of this boils down to one thing: Fear.

Over the long haul, there’s no way “old media” can withstand the onslaught of free or near free and the reality is that there is so much good and creative content online. For example, look at the recent Bill O’Reilly video and the mashups that followed it.

The bottom line is that old media can’t create that type of innovation.

And, like Craigslist, as an example, many people on the Net do not have a profit motive as their “mode of operandi”.

Although, I do believe that at some point, Craigslist will be sold for billions.

By: Denis Hancock

Denis Hancock — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:21:53 +0000

Fair enough – I realize there is some irony built into a post asking for comments about the (possible) lack of value in comments!

But if you did decide to offer up the long explanation some day, I’d be more than happy to link to it/ cross publish it…

By: Ken Leebow

Ken Leebow — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:00:43 +0000

You’re asking for a different system…sort of a hybrid between “old” edited “media” and the almost totally open system of the Internet.

It’s a very long explanation and since I rarely comment (and even I don’t care about my opinion), I have to end it here.

And, going back to the video. The gentleman from old media (I forget his name), if he really cares about the future of media, should become one of the credible bloggers.

By: Denis Hancock

Denis Hancock — Tue, 20 May 2008 18:33:23 +0000

But do you think that there is a way to find those “needles in the haystack”, and highlight them / make them useful in a way that each reader doesn’t have to pick through it?

As you can probably tell, I think that there is theoretically a way – but I’m not 100% sure how it would work. At any given time I have about 5 destinations I go to on the web where the comments/ conversations add an incredible amount of value to the posts. However, as they inevitably get more popular, those 5 get over run… and I end up with a new 5. It’s a never ending cycle I would like to break somehow!

By: Ken Leebow

Ken Leebow — Tue, 20 May 2008 17:31:14 +0000

Thank you for turning me on to the Costa’s video — very entertaining.

I marvel at the number of comments that are on blog postings.

It makes me realize that people really aren’t — busy, busy, busy, as they profess.

Whether it’s politics or any other blog, I find comments to be a waste of time. Trying to find the insightful and useful comments is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Or about as interesting as following Twitter postings.