OK, one more

[mmcirvin]

I've noticed that people on LiveJournal, unlike people in the Greater Blogosphere, don't write a lot of posts that are mere repetition of links to interesting posts on other people's journals.

I wonder why this is. It may be that the friends list already serves as a sort of public aggregator, so that a sort of hand aggregation is redundant. Or it may be simply that these things are publicly identified as "journals" rather than "weblogs", which were originally supposed to be very link-heavy things, descendants of Cool Site of the Day.

(NOTE: This is a revised version of a post that I deleted because I had probably unfounded worries that a remark in it might start a row over two or three things that happened several years ago and had nothing to do with what I was talking about. I'm putting this notification of the change in because a bunch of people on political blogs are making a big deal this week about how if you ever silently revise a jerky comment you made, this is extremely bad and wrong. Some seem to think that for true virtue you need a complete audit trail and variorum edition. Maybe that's true if you actually try to carry on important discussions rather than talking about kung fu eunuchs and your iPod.)

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I think you just have high-quality friends. I try to avoid people whose posts are mostly links, and i try to keep that sort of post to a minimum.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

I figure that even if one of my posts is about an external link, I at least ought to say something about it, other than "this rocks" or "me too."