Louis Gray is wondering about people coming and people going in the blogosphere, what is interesting, and makes a nice rebuttal to his point of “I am missing those that used to challenge me”, is that after a while those that challenge your assumptions either become co-opted and agree with you (not very satisfying unless you have low self esteem), or you just really want someone to challenge your assumptions.
In that light, there are some great bloggers out there that either challenge my assumptions like Louis, Dave Winer, Read Write Web, and others on my Friend Feed list, and those that just simply crack me up (like Robert Scoble) and I find an affinity with them because they have the ability to make me laugh (nearly shooting coffee or soda out my nose). But then these bloggers will change, I know it, they have in the past, they will in the future.
It is not often that you can find someone with a challenging position in the blogosphere, we tend to want to stick to like minds, some blogs made me laugh for a while like John Scalzi’s WTF, or Will Wheaton’s blog, or even Rev 2.0 and now just checking in maybe once a month on those when they used to be a daily exercise to go there. Scoble, Mini Microsoft and MSFT Extreme Makeover were all important, the only one I follow now (unless there is breaking Microsoft News) is Scoble.
Tastes and times change, part of the game. Throw something over the wall that challenges assumptions, like the whole attribution in blogging issue, life will be good.
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