 20071105 Tumblr? Don't Bothr: The Case Against Hyperblogging
Ricky Van Veen: Words have relative values. Someone who talks a lot has less value to their words than someone who rarely speaks. But when that quiet person speaks, people listen. When you publish 20 posts a day, your individual posts lose value. And when you finally do have something to say, it gets lost among the clutter. Your signal to noise ratio is too low. 5
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said... Very nicely put Ricky (and thanks for sharing Zach) - all this tumbling makes me nauseous. 10:31 AM chriskalani said... this is so true. For example you and ricky have blogs that I look forward to reading every post, and then there's jakob's where I blow through everything in a second and there will usually be 1 out of 8 things that is actually worth my time. 11:27 AM Thommy said... Ha! http://rickyv.tumblr.com/ 1:32 PM Paul said... Hence why the Becker/Posner blog with its three posts a week is still a popular source of Economics content. And well the Nobel dident hurt either... http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/ 1:59 PM Anthony said... While I do love tumbling, I definitely agree it could induce major information overload and would love to see the Tumblr team implement a daily RSS update sort of like WordPress does with asides. 6:13 PM Post a Comment |
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 Hi, I'm Zach. I grew up in Fort Wayne, Indiana and graduated from Wake Forest. After college, I moved to Manhattan to get serious about a company I ran with friends. We sold it to Barry Diller's InterActiveCorp in 2006. I just wrapped up with a project I co-founded called Vimeo and left CV to focus on being a twenty-five year old. I have another blog called Copy and Taste, where I post about learning to cook. I live in Brooklyn now.  Del.icio.us My Flickr Me on Flickr Last.fm Linked in MySpace Netflix History Vimeo  Amir Blumenfeld Chris Bodenner Mareen Fischinger Fort Wayne Observed Nick Gray Hype Machine Jake and Amir Jakob Lodwick Oh My Rockness Jonathan Marcus Youngna Park Megan Scheminske Eliot Shepard Shorpy Signal vs. Noise Alex Soth Stereogum Ricky Van Veen Khoi Vinh Eugene Wyatt   Postal Skype SMS (via AIM) |