Comments on: The Long Tail Wags the Blogs http://www.republicoft.com/2006/07/17/the-long-tail-wags-the-blogs/ Black. Gay. Father. Vegetarian. Buddhist. Liberal. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:47:01 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bill Hooker http://www.republicoft.com/2006/07/17/the-long-tail-wags-the-blogs/comment-page-1/#comment-1050 Bill Hooker Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:49:36 +0000 http://www.republicoft.com/2006/07/17/the-long-tail-wags-the-blogs/#comment-1050 <blockquote>online campaigns in which a group of bloggers — whose cumulative page views and unique visits probably don’t add to a single day’s traffic for any one of the bloggers in Technorati’s top 100, the higher beings of the blogosphere ecosystem, or the Blogebrity a-list (note which list I’m on)— come together to amplify a story and mobilize people into action</blockquote> That's exactly what happens with the <a href="http://blogathon.org/" rel="nofollow">Blogathon</a>, an online event my spousal unit runs. A few hundred bloggers you never heard of, making a difference in the world. I think about that -- and I'm going to remember this post of yours, too -- whenever my faith in the ability of "the little guy" to do anything about the state of the world begins to flag.

online campaigns in which a group of bloggers — whose cumulative page views and unique visits probably don’t add to a single day’s traffic for any one of the bloggers in Technorati’s top 100, the higher beings of the blogosphere ecosystem, or the Blogebrity a-list (note which list I’m on)— come together to amplify a story and mobilize people into action

That’s exactly what happens with the Blogathon, an online event my spousal unit runs. A few hundred bloggers you never heard of, making a difference in the world. I think about that — and I’m going to remember this post of yours, too — whenever my faith in the ability of “the little guy” to do anything about the state of the world begins to flag.

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