Today is definitely an echo day! Luckily, this doesn’t happen every day, but you can see what I’m talking about over on TechMeme today.

I don’t want to add to the echo so I’m not even going to point out exactly what I’m talking about but it should probably be pretty obvious. Of course, the issue is not as big of deal as most people are making out of it and I think most bloggers have figured that out.

Anyway, I love the blogsphere but it can be annoying when most people are just repeating what others have already said without adding any substantial commentary of their own. I can’t fault the bloggers that posted earlier when these echoes blow up but all the ones since just add unnecessary noise to the conversation. To make the situation worse, you just know that Mainstream Media is going to pick up the echo the next day and add even more unnecessary noise to the conversation!

The funny thing is that this could be avoided if most of these people used tools like TechMeme. It’s a great tool (I use it daily!) and you can see an echo on there pretty easily when they happen.

I guess maybe most people don’t care and just want to join the link chain. Oh well.

December 28th, 2006

 

Tags: Blogsphere, TechMeme, Web