Sorry but after reading Louis’ post from yesterday about disaggregation (is that even a word?) and focus I just couldn’t resist the headline.
All humor aside Louis has always been a proponent of making sure that you get your content out there, regardless of service and preferably on all of them. This has lead to more than a few discussions in the blogosphere about the increasing amount of noise and whether or not at some point content producers might face some kind of backlash.
Causing our own pain
While I like Louis and consider him to be a pretty sharp dude I have always questioned this shotgun approach. For me it was, and is always a case of who is really benefiting from this kind of shove it everywhere thinking. Not just as a writer but also as a reader.
I can’t count the number of time I have gotten totally exasperated over see the same post headline everywhere I turn around, and if it was the headline it was the whole post that chances are I’ve already read. Then there is the frustration as a writer of being made to believe that I need to be on every service that comes along if for no other reason that to make sure my posts – in whatever form – can be found there.
You know what – enough already.
Almost like clockwork the early adopter hardcore group is once more waxing poetically about FriendFeed.
Yes this is definitely getting out a little late but between Mark having some problems getting his replacement laptop ready and then Talkshoe deciding that it didn’t want to let the show go posting got delayed.
