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May 11th, 2007 at 10:20 am by PSoTD
I’m wondering - are bloggers more likely to post on a specific incident, or less likely, when a “big blogger” writes a post about the event? For example, when there’s an Eschaton post on a press conference… does it increase blogging about the press conference, or reduce it?
Big traditional news media coverage tends to increase blogging about an event. Does big blogger coverage reduce the blogging?
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increase. there’s no question. bloggers tend to inspire one another. if you read about something somewhere else, it gets you thinking of posting about it.
I dunno. I posed the same question at my blog and had several respond that if they felt the territory was already covered sufficiently by someone with greater exposure, they were less likely to blog about it.
I’m with PSoTD. I have topics I cover extensively. Josh Marshall owns the US attorney scandal, FDL has the Libby-Rove nexus. I’ll touch on those topics if they relate to other things I cover.
well, i also try to avoid topics that have been well-covered elsewhere, but we all think that we’re the exception, right?
can you really say that the u.s. attorney scandal isn’t being written about by blogs? or the libby-rove nexus? josh marshall and FDL may “own” those scandals, but pretty much everyone else has also written about both those things (indeed, both have appeared quite a lot right here on this site)
I’d say it does increase talk on other blogs, but those of us in the B and C levels tend to look for overlooked news items that A level bloggers miss or don’t care about.
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