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HW 22: Response to “Web of Influence.”

The following paragraph is that of which I have decided to respond to.

“Most bloggers desire a wide readership, and conventional wisdom suggests that the most reliable way to gain Web traffic is through a link on another weblog.  A blog that is linked to by multiple other sites will accumulate an ever increasing readership as more bloggers discover the site and create hyperlinks on their respective Web pages.  Thus, in the blogosphere, the rich (measured in the number of links) get richer, while the poor remain poor.” 

                In other words, the more people that work together and connect their weblogs, the more popular they will become.  The fact that adding another person’s blog to your own to expand the range of your viewers, for instance, demonstrates, that avid blog readers are interested in all types of stories, especially if they can find them through a weblog they are already familiar with.  Essentially, I am arguing that the more people tag on to other blogs, other people will be able to see theirs, then in turn making their way to the tagged blog and going on to read that.  The process is a big loop.  As the person reads the tagged blog, they will then see those of which have been tagged to that.  It expands the entire blogging world.