Monkeynotions

Okay, I must confess, I’m a lazy blogger that will post sporadically, but it’s eventually at a monthly rate. It takes me some time to do the longer posts and more frequently. Furthermore, I do lightly follow the blogosphere. Unfortunately, being at Blogher I realized how many bloggers that I dont’ know but feel like i should know. The strange thing is if I DO know the blogger, I feel like a stalker. If I don’t know the blogger, I feel less of a blogger cause I don’t know someone I should know. Furthermore, I’ll need to find time to blog about my experience and document it on flickr. Oh yes no wonder bloggers may seemed stressed out =). I’ll admit i have never been a good groupie. Perhaps with this new attention economy , it will be the groupies that will win out and have the most equity =).

As the blogosphere becomes bigger, finding like minded people will become more problematic (a la the reason for Technorati). I wasn’t at the Blogher last year, but I’m sure that it was a bit of a different feeling… perhaps less commercialized and less of a focus on *business* and *identity*. It seemed like last year, women bloggers were even wondering if there were other folks like themselves. Since it was such a success, this year’s question wasn’t that… It was now how can I find other women bloggers like me. Within 2 years it moved from blogging 1.0 (just finding bloggers) to blogging 2.0 (finding bloggers like you). I think they handled the this quite well by offering BOF groups, adding in a little unconference to the traditional conference.

Interesting trend where big companies are looking for bloggers who already blog and connecting them with larger distributions and publishers. I met several folk at Blogher doing this: iVillage, BlogBurst, Women Matters, and Blog Talk Radio. Interesting enough, they weren’t looking for the top, A-lister blogs, but the B-list bloggers (another way the Silicon Valley is Hollywood for Geeks). It’s good for those that are this big online publishing houses as they don’t need to find content, and it’s good for the blogger in widening their audience. This I think is an interesting turning point in traditional media. Now the big online publishing houses is using the blogosphere to obtain their content. Has citizen journalism truly become mainstream? Maybe.

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