Last month I wrote about why I blogged, and what I hoped that readers would get out of it. Today my colleague Richard Giles posted a reference to John Hiler’s piece from March, 2002 [and doesn’t that seem a long time ago?] on The Tipping Blog: How Weblogs Can Turn an Idea into an Epidemic. As the title implies, Hiler applies the ideas of Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point to blogging, pointing out how different kinds of bloggers play the key roles of what Gladwell calls Connectors and Mavens. (Tim Bray seems to be the quintessential Connector – eh, Tim?)
And of course this blog entry simply contributes to what Douglas Hofstadter called a “tangled hierarchy” of self-reference! In fact, I wonder how many blog entries are actually ABOUT blogging – all the way from the simple Getting started, to comments about PG-13 content, to angst-filled discussions about blogs in politics. The title that my colleague Josh Simons chose for his blog seems particularly apt…..