I have been slow in my blog posting lately… and it is a little intentional, or rather I should say meaningful. I recently have started noticing the actual real lack of original content on blogs, specifically talking about technology. I am not a blogger in the sense that I have no following that I am trying ot beat out other bloggers, so I tend not to be the first to blog anything. This means by the time I “cover it” about 1000 blog articles have been posted on any given subject.

It seems that the internet has kind of glazed over the points of using trackbacks. To me if someone wrote a post and I felt the need to respond I would first go to the comments. If I felt my response was “more then a comment could handle” I would next consider posting a response blog post with a track back and adding in my 10 cents. This means the content on my blog would be “new” and reference the other content on the original web site.

Now I know that sites that make their money off of advertising that want you to stay on their site won’t ever buy into this, I am really talking about the non-professional bloggers. I also could see how a how-to blog article might want to be complete so that a user didn’t need to jump around and cross reference a lot, but for the millions of blog posts out there that are like “wow what a great new technology let me make a blog post and explain it”, you are just cluttering my RSS reader. Unless you have something new to say, just linkblog it.

I have often wondered how the quality of articles would increase if someone like google for their reader stepped in and had a sort of digg voting system per topic. Example: A new cell phone is announced. About 100 blogs cover the release of that new cell phone and google reader would use their AI to group them together. Users of google reader would be asked to vote on which article best covered the topic and then for future google reader readers they were presented with the “best” article for the topic. Perhaps the algorithm would have to be # of votes over time, that way bloggers couldn’t grab more votes by simply posting a couple minutes early or perhaps voting was only applicable once articles were “competing’. I dunno, but I think I would definately use this service.

So to sum it up, if you are planning on writing an article on any of the following, AND DON’T HAVE ANYTHING NEW TO ADD… please, go do something else more useful:

• The gPhone
• OpenSocial
• OSX Leopard Release
• Running Leopard on a PC

kthnxbai.