Comments on: Scoble goes wishy washy

By: Thatedeguy

Thatedeguy — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 13:33:09 +0000

The way I understand it, a snark, when referring to a blog, is a post referring to another persons blog where by you bash the other person. Usually without merit.

By: Brady

Brady — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 04:46:02 +0000

Sorry to interupt this discussion. But for the sake of not digging through a 9 page wikipedia article about it. What the hell is a snark when refering to a blog? I’m familiar with snarky being used when refering to weird or unusual behavior in a website forums type of environment but I guess I’ve missed out on the blog subculture here.

PS: I counted 12 snarks on this page including the comments.

By: Thatedeguy

Thatedeguy — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:59:04 +0000

I disagree with your first comment. While you may not think everyone deserves to be listened to, I am sure that they think that they deserve to be listened to. In fact, I believe that it is the “elitist” camp(of which I don’t believe you fall) that has created the percieved need for a “snark” to gain the attention they feel that they deserve.

I honestly, thought that the snark that you were referring to was the snark from last sunday as you said the “sunday snark” but I realize now that you were instead referring to the trend of sunday being the slowest on memeorandum and the snarks getting higher billing because of that.

I think that you are right to say that RSS gives you what you want, in that it lets you subscribe to people that you admire and read. But I personally feel that consistently reading just the RSS feeds also lends itself to a closing of the scope of the blogosphere. I say that because each of us were beginners at one point. Some such as myself still are. And each of us had/has to find our way into the mainstream. Most all of the people that are in the percieved “A-List” weren’t at one point. Some gained that station based on what they have done and others were “discovered” at one point and through the social nature of the blogosphere, people began reading them. It will take much longer for things like that to evolve and be discovered if we all just read our RSS feeds.

That’s one reason that I prefer meme’s like Tailrank and Megite over memeorandum. They are wide open.

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:48:12 +0000

Also, no one hurt my feelings. At least not today. The snark I was reacting to was the camp snarks. I wasn’t involved. I didn’t attend. But I just realized that there were a bunch of people who were there to attack other people and I just am tired of it. I’m also addicted to Memeorandum and found I was missing what I loved about RSS. RSS lets me subscribe to people I admire and read them while not being forced to read people who are just there to disrupt.

By: Robert Scoble

Robert Scoble — Mon, 06 Mar 2006 02:45:47 +0000

Actually, I want stuff that I choose. I want to be able to remove people from the list. See, not everyone deserves to be listened to.