The Failure of Small Chunks
A couple friends recently recommended watching Idiocracy. It is equally funny and disturbing, especially when you consider how our media consumption habits have shifted. Small isolated chunks pretend to be valuable information, but when placed outside of useful context, typically in ordered lists of factoids, they have much more marketing pull than they have actionable value. Some of my better posts go without comment, while some of my lists get thousands of backlinks.
Some people have hundreds, thousands, or hundreds of thousands of readers. Some people have millions of inbound links or MySpace friends. Virtually all of it is recycled content and recycled marketing in a fight for mindshare. The struggle for marketing anything beyond thinly disguised self promotion is to be able to add context, all while time starved people learn to hate and reject it, as they rush off to blog the same story before you do.
Comments
Man I love that movie.
this post was brought to you by Carl's Jr. and Brawndo the thirst mutilator.
Hi
Sorry for this off topic message but I can't find a way to contact you.
My question is why your keyword suggestion tool does not have option to select Canada results? Will have this in future?
Thank you,
Alex
>>> Some of my better posts go without comment, while some of my lists get thousands of backlinks
That's because people are stupid. They think they want quality, insightful editorial, when in fact they want empty, superficial don't-make-me-think spoonfeeding. They want to FEEL smart by "getting" something right away, instead of being smart and using objective data to forumlate their own independent opinion
then again, the nature of blogs is to provide shorter chunks of easily digestible content. just like television works better to deliver visceral, generally shorter entertainment. while on the other hand, if someone wants complex analysis and commentary, they read a book. it's the medium, not the message. the problem is when people only read blogs/watch tv.
Add new comment