I've now lost my passion for the topic of the Bloggerati and linking, or the lack thereof, of the growing homogeneity of the "conversation," or at least the visibility into the "conversation" within the bloghole. I'm back to writing what I write. A big valley girl "WhatEVER" to the rest of it.
HowEVER....
I couldn't help think the other week, when IBM made news 'round the net by posting it's IBM's new Blogging Guidelines, that our own A-Lister Bloggers could learn something from the Megacorporation.
In response to IBM's announcement, I posted my IBM's Breathing Guidelines for Air Suckers, which might have gone unnoticed but to my regular readers if IBM had not wanted to PARTICIPATE IN not just ANNOUNCE its news, to which IBM jammed back with its own take on the breathing guidelines, effectively engaging a tiny voice from the blogosphere on the big day of the announcement in a funny aside that drew about 4,000 people here and elsewhere, gathering in comments to play their own word games.
None of those people were Big Bloggers, the Men of Weblogging, better known as Our Own A-Listers.
I started thinking this: If Jeff Jarvis or Rogers Cadenhead or David Weinberger, say, had posted the same breathing guidelines on a satirical whim -- which would be in keeping with their proclivity toward witty banter on tech news -- and if IBM had come back and jammed with them on their first day of official acknowledgement of corpoblogging, would the linky love among the blogworld's Big Blog Guys not have flowed like a fine wine?
Doc's headline might have been: Waiting to Exhale
David's might have been: Turning Blue, or IBM Learns How to Breathe
Jeff's: Suck It Up: IBM Breathes and Blogs
Roger's: Air Suckers Blow at IBM
Scoble's: It's as easy as breathing, guys.
Joi's: Blog Change Is in the Air at Big Blue
Of course, these post titles are all imaginary.
Because, you know, those guys were busy reading each other during those few days.
And, just for the record, these are the fellas I like, some of them I know pretty well, and all of them I read. Still do. Will do.
