Competition in the Blogosphere
Sunday, September 11th, 2005The main reason I was attracted to reading boardgaming blogs was the signal-to-noise ratio, compared to Spielfrieks. Things have changed in the last 20 months. The ratio is still fine, but the bandwidth has grown exponentially. This is not a problem with blogging, because you can choose to filter only the blogs that interest you. The problem is that I look at the other blogs and I am blown away by how good some of them are. I am not sure I would even read my own blog amongst the competition.
Luckily, Alfred has chosen to help us by aggregating the best blog posts. I wish he would trackback to the posts he recommends (pingbacks are easier), but otherwise it is a great idea and I am grateful.