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- Brianddrpm on 2008-01-01 - Tags blogging , innovation , writing
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As I thought about this, I realized that over the 5 years I’ve been blogging, my most popular posts have not come from following the blogosphere. They haven’t been the result of me responding to some online conversation. They haven’t been on techmeme. They have all been original stuff, stuff that I thought of when I wasn’t in front of a computer. My most popular post of all time, How to Network For Introverts came from a lunch conversation with a friend. The second most popular post of all time, my criticism of the book “Good to Great”, came when a friend of mine made a random comment about one of the companies in the study. Do you see a pattern emerging? Not one of my top 20 posts was on a popular blogosphere topic. Not one of them was about me “being part of the conversation.” Not one of them was anything other than a random observation or encounter that led to an idea.
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on 2008-01-01 by brianddrpm
There is an important lesson to be learned here and part is to remind myself the purpose of this experiment and that was to gather, organize and make available worthwhile and interesting information. Trouble is, do I depend too heavily upon other blogs? Those blogs I do use are either orginiators of source material or high enough quality that if they say something is good I can depend upon it. Of course everything goes through my personal filter.
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