Blogger Manifesto
This is some kind of peer decided rule list for bloggers. I'm pretty sure that it's a joke. But I've noticed some people who are linking to it are taking it quite seriously, so maybe I'm wrong.
One pledge of the "Blogger Manifesto" states: "I am not bouncier than Boing Boing. Stealing from them shows that I can't find anything new on the internet."
Cory Doctorow of the BoingBoing blog constantly steals links & posts from other blogs. And I, for one, am glad of that. Because I've seen some of the blogs he apparently reads, and I wouldn't want to have to check them constantly to find 1 post out of 100 interesting to me, when I can just check BoingBoing where at least 1 out of 10 posts are at least somewhat interesting to me. In other words, I'd rather get the interesting link 2 weeks late, than get it fresh by skimming through 20 technical topic posts.
Besides which, I didn't think finding something new to link to on a blog is as important as what people have to say about the link. And that's really where the decision to read or not read a blog is based for me.
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