Bloggers Should Think Coo-petition, Not Competition

Gizmodo's in-bound links and link to Techcrunch clinches the pennant in blogger ghetto and our national borders. One way to do this is to link to blogs from outside the United States. For example, here's a World is Flat. In the book, Thomas Friedman paints how since 2000 we've been living in a new era of globalization where Global PR Blog Week. There might be others I am not aware of. We need to do more as a group to start linking to our "competitors" as well as bloggers from outside our online and physical neighborhoods. One way to do this by subscribing to RSS feeds. I subscribe to Technorati and del.icio.us tag feeds for the topics I want to follow. This helps me find lots of cool stuff from blogs I don't normally read, often from outside the US. Let's do more to help each other rather than focusing on who's "in the lead." We shouldn't criticize the MSM for not linking to us, but rather play our A game in how we link to each other. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web Senior Vice President with Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.