Sifry's Alerts

Dave, this is all great fun! I've heard from some old friends, and feel like discussing the article is a part of the "Blogosphere dance"--the sounds of a community of people hearing one another's voices and chiming in.
I've noted some of the comments around the web at my blog. Thank you!

Dave, nice post and thanks for creating Technorati.

A few small points. If you are posting it on the Web, there is a good chance you want someone else to read it. A conversation only requires an audience of one other person.

I think the question is one of larger audiences. And then some follow up questions are:
How large is large?
Are you looking for a constantly growing audience?
Or a constantly changing audience?
Why do you want a large, growing or changing audience?
Is it fame, fortune, or just to entertain, inform or influence as many people as possible?

I think people may find a variety of reasons to blog and to express and perhaps some of them are for the sake of an audience of even one person; others may be for extremely private reasons or for the sake of self expression, illumination, reflection. If one other person reads it and finds it of worth, or perhaps leading to debate, or to a sense of shared worth, great!