Don't Confuse Blogging With The Echo Chamber

Now and then I see people write about "blogging" when they're really talking about the less than 1% of blogs that find themselves writing about each other in an almost herd-like and insular fashion sometimes. Often they'll all devote many bits and bytes to some trivial topic of the moment related to Google, blogging, Microsoft, patents, or government. I like to think of this small subset as the "echo chamber" that is occasionally written about in regards to blogging. They're the ones who often appear on echo chamber amplifiers like the Techmeme, and similar services. So when someone as bright as Disclaimer: This blog tends to participate in the echo chamber more than I'd like. I've been trying to fix that in recent months, but it's hard to go cold turkey. Bookmark Murdok: Jeremy Zawodny is the author of the popular Yahoo! Search blog as well. Visit Jeremy's blog: