Does anyone else agree that the blogosphere is completely flat from an individuals point of view, becoming more and more 3 dimensional the greater their online network?
If markets are conversations, then that’s all the blogosphere is. If an individual posts to their blog, and no one reads it, then it’s 0 dimensional. If one person reads it, it becomes 2 dimensional. When that person makes a comment back it becomes more three dimensional. The more people involved in the conversation, the more 3 dimensional that individuals experience becomes.
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I think blogs can by one dimensional (when writing is not read by anyone else), but when it is read, only then does that blog become part of the aggregate we call the blogosphere (for me, the blogosphere isn’t just the aggregate of all blogs, but rather the aggregate of blogging interaction [and reading is a form of interaction]). I do agree that is takes tangible interaction (comments, trackbacks, etc.) to really make the blogosphere richly three dimensional.
Indeeed, the blogosphere seems to pride itself on new and intricate ways of linking material in order to make rich conversations – you only have to look at the emerging trends and writing on folksonomies (interacting categorisation and conversation on the back of tags from Flickr to Del.ici.ous and beyond…). Indeed, folksonomies tend to show that the blogosphere seems determined to make conversations out of everything, from photos to bookmarks to “normal” blog posts!