Do you realize how many blogs are available out there? I have lost track of the statistics, but I’m sure tens of thousands blogs are created every day. New voices, new ideas, new conversations.
I am worried that the blogosphere is turning into a graveyard of ideas.
The reasoning, simply, is that there are lots and lots of unrecognized voices out there. Brilliant ideas, interesting reads, all drowned within the noise of so many cats blog (i.e: blogs that just tell about what the blogger’s cat just ate, and such).
Some, hopefully, are indexed properly in search engines, waiting to be picked up by someone with the correct keyword. The rest, I believe, remain in the dark. This brings me into thinking that if you cared about your idea, it’s really important to be responsible about it. By responsible I mean that you must do your best to let people know about it, let conversations grow around it, let it stand the test of time under the scrutiny of your audiences.
Leaving your precious ideas in the hands of fate or (ahem) search engine indexes might not be the best plan to have.
If your idea is important to you, then there’s no other way but to learn how to let the rest of the world know. No, simply writing it in your blog is not equal to letting the rest of the world know. Brilliant idea tend to illuminate itself by default, but without proper marketing skill we had better prepare a new tombstone celebrating its tragic death.
It’s a huge world out there, the blogosphere. Most of them burial grounds. I hope your (and my) blog is out there doing crazy things to keep it alive and thus, negating the dark and gloomy atmosphere of the graveyard of ideas.
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