Faulkner’s and Melican’s “Getting Noticed, Showing-Off, Being Over-Heard: Amateurs, authors and artists inventing and reinventing themselves in online communities.” Is almost a “How to” for successful blogging. Though not the paper’s intention, it talks about how a couple of people become financially successful using blogs, reputationally successful or succeeding in ‘not getting caught’.
Apparently it’s all about appealing to a niche market, which at some point everyone realizes they like the same things and it’s no longer a niche. I guess I don’t feel the same way about this blog. I guess I’m not doing it for other people. To be honest, I’m doing it as part of a course project, and although it was initially the professor’s idea that we would be posting these online, it is no longer required, and I believe the only person actually reading this is my T.A. Oh well.
I don’t hope for others to start reading this, I do this for myself, or at least, if I continue to write, it will be for personal reasons. Though if there is some one out there who happens across this writing, I hope you manage to take something interesting away from it. A recommendation for a reading mayhaps? Or an interesting thought? If not, but your still reading this, then sorry. There’s probably something more interesting on Youtube.
I personally suggest the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPgCdGhbng&feature=related
Enjoy!
- Faulkner, S. and Melican, J., (2007). Getting Noticed, Showing-Off, Being Over-Heard: Amateurs, authors and artists inventing and reinventing themselves in online communities. In Proceedings of EPIC 2007: The Third Annual Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference.
Apparently it’s all about appealing to a niche market, which at some point everyone realizes they like the same things and it’s no longer a niche. I guess I don’t feel the same way about this blog. I guess I’m not doing it for other people. To be honest, I’m doing it as part of a course project, and although it was initially the professor’s idea that we would be posting these online, it is no longer required, and I believe the only person actually reading this is my T.A. Oh well.
I don’t hope for others to start reading this, I do this for myself, or at least, if I continue to write, it will be for personal reasons. Though if there is some one out there who happens across this writing, I hope you manage to take something interesting away from it. A recommendation for a reading mayhaps? Or an interesting thought? If not, but your still reading this, then sorry. There’s probably something more interesting on Youtube.
I personally suggest the following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHPgCdGhbng&feature=related
Enjoy!
- Faulkner, S. and Melican, J., (2007). Getting Noticed, Showing-Off, Being Over-Heard: Amateurs, authors and artists inventing and reinventing themselves in online communities. In Proceedings of EPIC 2007: The Third Annual Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference.
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