There is an 'A List' [of Weblogs]... and of course, the most important corollary: You're not on it.

I think I can summarize Clay Shirky's presentation on "social software" in just a few words: The most popular Weblogs are a lot more popular than the least popular Weblogs. (This is known as a "Power Law.") He spent a lot of time making this point. "There is an 'A List' [of Weblogs]... and of course, the most important corollary: You're not on it."

But he also said that Weblogs, even those with only a few readers, are "more like friendship than like publishing." They're like dinner parties -- not "publishing the world's smallest magazine with the world's smallest readership."

posted by Jordon | 10:07 AM | |