Killing off the Incestu-Bloggers
One thing that drives me crazy about industry blogs is that there are so many people saying the exact same thing over and over again. You can usually find one person will post something of interest and then 100 or so other people who subscribe to that original blog will post pretty much the same thing. Why??? Why do you do this? If you follow certain industries, then you have a bunch of industry blogs in your reader. Inevitably you end up with 101 posts about 1 thing. It’s just so circular because the people that read the blog with the unoriginal post and just wrote about it on their blog just also saw it on all the other blogs.
So, industry bloggy blogger guy, if you get the urge to regurge what you’ve read on someone else’s industry blog thinking you’re going to enlighten new people and get credit for being such an original thinker…. just stop.
I try to prevent topic overlap with my blogroll to spare people. If I catch it happening, I merely pull out the source that seems to be the follower. My roll changes fairly regularly as I move up the chain to credible forward thinkers.
I try not repost stuff that you can just as easily read somewhere else. It may result in me not following the ‘post every day’ mantra, but what I do post I try to make original.
Sorry, guess I’m still just grumpy about the Pats.
I completely agree with the blogs. I myself tend to do it a lot. I feel a new rule is in order, stop blogging about the same thing. This could be hard.
I would estimate that at least 75% of the readers of my do not subscribe to another domain industry blog.
I do agree with your point for industry-specific blogs. However, I do often find it interesting to hear several viewpoints on the same situation. Hearing what Elliot, Sahar, Jay, etc. each have to say on a topic can often bring upon good discussion on the topic.
I cannot stop reposting, but I feel if I can at least add my views to this topic at hand, hopefully I can make it slightly unique for the industry focused, and news to those not following the industry as closely.