{"id":670,"date":"2006-10-01T11:05:19","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T16:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=670"},"modified":"2006-10-01T11:05:19","modified_gmt":"2006-10-01T16:05:19","slug":"link-to-someone-new-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=670","title":{"rendered":"Link to Someone New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ernesto Burden is another person who has <a href=\"http:\/\/ernesto.burdenfamily.net\/index.php?op=ViewArticle&#038;articleId=285&#038;blogId=1\">dicovered the fun of using Comic Book Creator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Godin has <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2006\/09\/they_didnt_get_.html\">a bunch of statistics<\/a> over at his blog.  Fun stuff like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>31.4% of Americans don&#8217;t have internet access.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I assume this means &#8216;don&#8217;t have internet access in their homes&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>And&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>90% of the people in France have not created a blog.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Which is a pretty good set-up for a joke.  The exercise is left to the reader.  The rest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2006\/09\/they_didnt_get_.html\">statistics<\/a> are interesting as well.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the thing about this guy&#8217;s blog, which ties in with what he was saying with all of these statistics: I&#8217;ve never heard of Seth Godin. I spend every single day bouncing around blogtopia and I&#8217;ve never stumbled across his site.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/blogs\/http%3A%2F%2Fsethgodin.typepad.com\">He&#8217;s in the Technorati top 100<\/a>, and almost 6,000 people (!) have linked to him. At #39, he&#8217;s in the top 0.002% of all blogs<a href=\"#footnote\">*<\/a>.  He has a bunch of books.  Yet I&#8217;ve never heard the name, seen the face, read the blog, or saw one of those books.  <\/p>\n<p>This reminds me of the post I had a while back on <a href=\"?p=576\">finding good blogs<\/a> within the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Long_tail\">long tail<\/a>. I keep trying to think of blogs in familiar terms &#8211; like books or movies or TV.  If a book is in the top 0.002% of all books, then we&#8217;re talking about some universally recognized books: Treasure Island. The Bible. Catch-22.  Not everyone has read them, but good luck trying to find someone who never heard of them. In the same way, the top 0.002% of all movies would be stuff like Gone With The Wind and Citizen Kane.  <em>Everyone<\/em> in the English-speaking world has heard of those.  But a blog that is in the top 0.002% can still be virtually unknown, <em>even among avid blog readers<\/em>. The world of blogs is so diffuse it defies old ways of thinking about fame and recognition.<\/p>\n<p><small><a name=\"#footnote\">*<\/a> This is assuming there are 1.5 million blogs out there, a number which is just a guess.  When my site was new and unlinked, it was ranked 1.5 millionth, and I&#8217;m assuming new blogs start at the bottom. This is also assuming Technorati rankings have meaning.  Note that lots of blog-style sites that do not use proper blogging software are omitted.  For example, I don&#8217;t think <a href=\"http:\/\/denbeste.nu\/Chizumatic\/\">Chizumatic<\/a> appears on Technorati.  So, all of this might be useless and a waste of your time.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ernesto Burden is another person who has dicovered the fun of using Comic Book Creator. Seth Godin has a bunch of statistics over at his blog. Fun stuff like: 31.4% of Americans don&#8217;t have internet access. 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