I just looked at BoingBoing and two of the stories on the front page are stories that I covered days ago, weeks ago in the case of the Chinese bookstore, the other story was the Mole Man of London from a couple of days back. I nearly wrote about the frog in the bag but dropped it in the end; would have been three.
That’s pretty odd. Two posts were from Mark, one from Cory. I wonder if a blog like BoingBoing can even see a tiny blog like CR. It’s like a whale inspecting a minnow … I found it amusing as we linked to the same stories through different sources. This Internet thing, it’s all the same.
Only so many stories exist for link-blogs, it’s a huge recursive link fest, an Internet feeding frenzy where a story is posted in a flurry and forgotten soon after. The original posting site is often lost in the linking as the story moves up toward the whale blogs; they only go back one link, to the middle layer of blogs like Neatorama. The original poster won’t see any of the clicks from the whale blogs, they all go the the re-posting middle layer.
This is hard, if not impossible, to address. If you were to track the original source for every story that was posted it would take forever and in half the cases be a futile task. I don’t really know how to address it but it is a shame for the smaller blogs. The whale blogs feed off the middle layer who thrive off the clicks thrown back to them; meanwhile some small blog who posted something original* hardly gets a click.
* I’m not alluding to CR being this small blog posting original material, for the most part this is a link-blog. No better or worse than all the others. I just had to rattle off a fast post after seeing the whole recursive web in action this morning. I might edit this into something coherent when I get the time. Right now I better do some work.
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