{"id":190,"date":"2006-02-17T21:44:15","date_gmt":"2006-02-18T01:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-02-17T21:44:15","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T01:44:15","slug":"the-a-list-train-wreck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/2006\/02\/17\/the-a-list-train-wreck\/","title":{"rendered":"The A-list Train Wreck"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re interested in the whole A-list debate, and I\u2019m mostly not, but it\u2019s like a train wreck (you know you shouldn\u2019t look but you just can\u2019t help it), you can find more chatter \u2013 some civil, some not so much \u2013 all over the place. Mostly set off by the New York article<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n

Now, why we expect the blogosphere to be any different than society at large, I do not know<\/a>. We have social and business strata in the real world; it is inevitable<\/a> in the blogosphere as well. Technology changes. Human nature doesn\u2019t. An A-list is inevitable, ephemeral and it is damn hard work to get and stay on \u201cit.\u201d Not to mention the big bullseye on your back once you get there. <\/p>\n

Some A-list blogs are great. And on the other hand, some of the best blogging is being done in the long tail, not in the Technorati 100. That is just the way it is. <\/p>\n

Now, some things still piss me off from time to time<\/a>. Not the fact of an A-list or the concerns of those in the long tail — but the attitudes that occasionally go along with BOTH. So I can\u2019t promise to never talk about it again, but not right now. <\/p>\n

Because as Vamp!Willow said in Buffy the Vampire Slayer: \u201cBored now.\u201d <\/p>\n

But if you\u2019re not, and want to watch the train wreck, here are some blogs to check out. Links are to posts on the blogs related to the topic. <\/p>\n

Beyond Madison Avenue<\/a>
Blogging for Business
<\/a>gapingvoid, Two posts of interest here<\/a> and here<\/a>
Seth Finkelstein, InfoThought <\/a>
Media Orchard<\/a> (while we are at it, kudos to Scott Baradell for having the right idea about Dr. Myra<\/a>  from the get-go. More another day on why more bloggers didn\u2019t \u201cjoin the charge.\u201d)
Micro Persuasion<\/a>   
Naked Conversations<\/a>
Newsome.org \u2013 multiple posts in the last few days Just check out his blog<\/a>, it is pretty good!
Scobleizer<\/a> <\/p>\n

For my part, I just try to write an interesting blog that I and my readers will enjoy. Some days I hit it, some I don\u2019t. I couldn\u2019t tell you exactly how many readers I have, because I don\u2019t track it obsessively. But I do know they are some of the greatest people I\u2019ve ever \u201cmet\u201d from the great comments and trackbacks I\u2019ve had over the 15 or so months I\u2019ve been blogging.  <\/p>\n

Marketing 101: it isn\u2019t about reaching the MOST people. It\u2019s about reaching the RIGHT people. <\/p>\n

Think about that. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you\u2019re interested in the whole A-list debate, and I\u2019m mostly not, but it\u2019s like a train wreck (you know you shouldn\u2019t look but you just can\u2019t help it), you can find more chatter \u2013 some civil, some not so much \u2013 all over the place. Mostly set off by the New York article this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":""},"categories":[5,4,9],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/\/getgood.com\/roadmaps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}