… There’s no such thing! If at all possible there’s too much. We’re completely engulfed by information, of every kind, wherever we want whenever we want.
The problem now is finding what you need. As you know I’ve been playing with Flickr lately and published some of my photos, which I think are not too bad, however, there was a persistent 0 comments underneath each photo reminding me that people weren’t watching them, or at least were not interested.
The same thing was/is happening in this blog, constant 0 comments. I started thinking about a “lecture” I saw by Fred Wilson who, rightly, claimed that nowadays it’s not about information, it’s all about information about information. (sorry about that)
Tags, social bookmarking/networking, hopefully people will click on the link and reach your page. Seems that everything comes down to Googlejuice (Jeff Jarvis‘ definition). I was, in fact, really impressed by what a simple “Dig” of the Joost invitation article did, 8 comments, not many but unprecedented for this blog.
Same thing happened on Flickr, I just started submitting my photos to public groups and adding new contacts. Comments/views started arriving. I wonder if there’s something we can do to make the process easier. Tags are genius but I really can’t be bothered to write 50 tags for each article of photo I publish, I want tags to be automatically generated from the content of my article or from… predominant colors… or something… in my pictures. Do you know if there’s already something like that out there?
Oh, and as I promised I rounded up a jury and selected the best comment to the Joost invitation post! And the winner is… Delfin (who’ll get the invitation momentarily). We felt that both Daniel and Delfin actually put some effort in the short pitch. We picked Delfin because he showed definitely more enthusiasm.
Will post something here if I get any other invitation.
Take it easy,
Stefano
April 11, 2007 at 5:10 am |
It’s really hard to get people to your site. I’ve probably built around 20 different sites, just for fun, in the last 2years, all of which have failed miserably. Due to lack of attractive (interesting) content i have not been able to gain loyalty among users.
Right now I have a free-host forum with 1 user, which has been out there for about 2 month. I got a few of my friends to check it out, and i know there is probably at least a couple of users who have seen it. Either way they must be playing the leech role. Most people, myself included, surf the net to gather info and not to share it.
I asked that one user how he found out about my forum and it was via a blog comment
. Where my name linked to my site.
Also i found out that the sites that get the most audience are the ones that collect published information. A good example: digg. That is why in my forum i have sections such as: “seen on digg”, lol it should help!
anyways good luck.
*Did my comment get sent? i don’t know if not just delete the duplicate.
April 13, 2007 at 6:01 am |
Something is wrong with the comment system because i already left 3 comments which do not appear.
April 15, 2007 at 10:06 pm |
Sorry about that! Your comment had been blocked as spam, published now!
April 15, 2007 at 10:15 pm |
The other good example of this is wikipedia, millions of articles and visitors every day. But only a 1% of those visitors actually contribute to the project. The same thing goes for del.icio.us and most other social-thing-like sites!
Thanks for the comment!