Comments on: Gatekeepers without gates

By: Chino Yray

Chino Yray — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:42:04 +0000

in this virtual world even if some are more advance or in the “A-list” if they can do it, so can we.

By: Thatedeguy : Gatekeepers, A-list and Second Opinion

Thatedeguy : Gatekeepers, A-list and Second Opinion — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 17:39:59 +0000

[...] I wrote before about Gatekeepers without gates and the discussion continued everywhere. Since I’ve been looking for alternate ways to follow the discussions on the web and really haven’t found much. Memeorandum would be great if it would open up a little. As it stands now, I really think that it only has a base of about 300 blogs. That’s not much considering technorati has a list of 28 million. [...]

By: Techno-Squirrels

Techno-Squirrels — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:47:20 +0000

[...] I was over at Shanes site again today (Yep, I do visit your site regularily man.) and he had an interesting post about A-list bloggers and their seeming control of how successful newer blogs might be. Rather than burying another three paragraph comment on his blog I thought I’d post it here: [...]

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 20:45:39 +0000

To me a lot of these complaints about “a-list” bloggers seem born out of jealousy more than anything else.

The biggest “problem” with the blogosphere is that it is a supply-and-demand situation that is overly heavy on the supply. There are plenty of good blogs out there, but only so many blog readers to pay attention to them.

I don’t even see how any given “a-lister” could act as a gatekeeper. If a blog’s content is good enough, somebody is going to find it and read. If the already established “a-listers” choose not to link to it, it is their loss. Because other people will recognize the talent and they will link or read.

To get noticed in blogging you have to be very, very good for a very, very long time. I still remember when my blog was nothing but me talking to the void. I’m not exactly an “a-lister” now, but I have a sizeable community of readers. It just takes time to develop that.

By: Northern_Girl

Northern_Girl — Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:42:03 +0000

Amen, brother!

Humans must be hard-wired into creating a caste system. Sad. And lately? Even the so called A-listers are behaving like “The Heathers” and that is just scary. I’m all for creating our own discussion, finding our own way, and generating our own traffic. I can do without the recognition, but cash or chocolate? I’m in.