The contest

Well, it seems the Microbes on Parade contest has been temporarily altered again. If your blog started on or after March you can submit. And previous contestants that got 2 or fewer votes ca re-enter.

So I figure, what the hell. I just entered the second of my Racism posts (the one with the marketing-based name change).

I'm starting to figure out why the whole popularity by links thing annoyed my. It strikes me that, the way things are structured, blogroll links are more valuable than links to posts because they are more persistant. Meanwhile, I value links to posts more highly because it means someone thinks I said something worth reading.

Also, link exchanges might have (I want to say social, but am instead saying) editorial significance. I haven't completely decided what that means and how I feel about it so I haven't asked for any (though it's worked out that way in a couple of cases). But whatever it means, some folks take it quite seriously—my very first link exchange has apparently been terminated for a reason I find to be just silly, but hey…

Basically, I think my value judgement of links are at a bit of a variance with the blogosphere's zeitgeist. I suppose if i really want to get an idea or two working in the agora I need to adjust. What the adjustment needs to be is the question, I guess.

posted by Prometheus 6 at 6/17/2003 10:03:28 AM |