Hooked on Us
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I beg forgiveness of Jason for using his real name in the clipping.
Below is the list of top 10 education blogs…but the question I have is, “Does it matter?” While I applaud the herculean efforts Jason Falls (Social Media Explorer) went through to obtain the list of blogs, develop his methodology, not to mention partnering with PostRank.com (gasp, please don’t interpret this as a negative critique because my post rank may go down!!), I’m more excited that he’s displayed the list of blogs, kindly providing a link and RSS feed.
I read somewhere recently that blogs and tweets that provide lots of links immediately are more welcome than those that do not. In the end, are we going to end up with blog entries that are just full of links? I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, since I do it myself and Feedburner and Delicious have conspired together (or maybe not) to make it easy to share what we consume in web sites and share via social bookmarking, I just wonder—at the risk of bemoaning what blogs have become today as opposed to what they were when I started out—where it’s all headed.
In truth, I guess I don’t care. A few years ago, I would have jumped for joy to be on anyone’s list. Now, I’m more excited by the fact that Jason (who has 3,212 subscribers) linked to me, giving me the opportunity to subscribe to his PR/social media blog, and check out the rest of the blogs on his list. But to be honest, there’s just so much content!
Maybe, we all need to start making lists of bloggers and blogs we like, sharing why they are right for us now, as opposed to how they weren’t right for us before. In fact, I have to point out that I like one criteria—how that was assessed still seems like a black box, unknowable—Jason used. That criteria?
Engagement…are your readers engaged, hooked on what you write? If that’s a measure, then I’m grateful to blog readers who keep coming back.
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