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Is that an echo of Shirky I’m hearing?

Hey, great essay. Absolutely great.

Thanks for pointing it out.

Hasty Recapitulates Shirky (and my spam blacklist rant)
Here's a post just begging for trackbacks. So I'll go ahead and link-whore a little. Hasty's Fifth Axiom of Blogging. Which sounds like Shirky's Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality (Via ZombyBoy) Update: Not only did my trackback not go through to Hasty's blog, I wasn't able to post a comment there either. I'm really getting pissed off at over-aggressive anti-spam filters. Really. They're getting to be almost as annoying as spam itself. As far as…

The day I link to one of the “big name” blogs is the day I retire. RS notwisthstanding.

I heard of your site and just wanted to see what´s up here. Really nice place. See you again sometime.

I politely disagree with this notion because big-named blogs tend to self-destruct at a certain point, and when they do they go fallow, rotting from the inside out.

Just look at the steady decline of Andrew Sullivan’s blog numbers.

I admit that I rarely read Sullivan’s site anymore--and always because someone else has linked him, never because I just really feel a need to read his stuff. Are his numbers really that far down? Some of the big name sites do seem to self-destruct, but sites like Instapundit, Talk Left, and LGF just keep on going.

You know, I’ve never found Instapundit or LGF remotely informative or entertaining.

And there it is: The three basic characteristics to make a blog worthwhile. Entertaining, enlightening, and educating.

But what do I know? My blog, relatively-speaking, has no traffic.