Watch Me Cause I’m Watching it All
Watch The Watchers - What you will find is that a few bloggers become the de facto “aggregators” for their industry so instead of watching 50 blogs you will only need to watch the one blogger who watches the 50 blogs for you and reports back with the best stuff.
That, my friends, is exactly my goal here with ePublishingDaily. I know it’s a lofty ideal, possibly arrogant but heck, if you’re gonna do something then go for broke. And with ePubDaily I want to be that de facto “aggregator” (and some) for my industry: information publishing.
But the beauty of that is that I won’t be a link hoarder and chain you to this blog - actually quite the opposite. I’m one of those bloggers that leak many links. Just see me as a starting off point into the world of information publishing.
The quote comes from Yaro Starak who is blogging the ongoing process of his first eProduct - Blog Traffic School. Thanks Yaro for reducing the noise just a little in my own mind and helping me to clarify where I’m trying to go with this … and I hope your go at your own eProduct kicks some serious but. Good luck, mate!
3 Responses to “Watch Me Cause I’m Watching it All”
By maxon on Jun 8, 2006 | Reply
yap! Yaro made a good newsletter. i’m also subscribed =)
the model of succesful blogging in the way of “Watch The Watchers” is scientiificaly proved. ie in this paper about political blogs smth could be found on this topic (may be you already saw it):
http://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~farrell/blogpaperfinal.pdf
By Yaro on Jun 11, 2006 | Reply
Ahh Martin, always happy to reduce the noise. You sure are taking on a rather laborious role if you attend to be a human aggregator. Although you’ve always been a good blog-watcher.
By Martin Neumann on Jun 12, 2006 | Reply
maxon - thanks for that, I’ll have a read of it.
And yep, read Yaro - some quality stuff going on there.
Yaro - Yes but this time I’m a little smarter. Firstly, it’s an industry I’m very much interested in, involved in and loving.
Secondly, I’m watching a niche, so I’m following only about 20 “biggish” companies, 50 or so blogs and rss’ing the rest - so essentially it’s more focued watching. ie: you won’t see me commenting on say, blog networks or blog traffic (that’s your domain).