Blah blah blogging

Sure to be the snark-of-the-town in the blogosphere this week, New York Magazine has a cover story on the increasingly star-driven world of blogs. It’s well-written, well-researched, and seems, at least initially, to rise above the traditional MSM Covers The Blog World With Confusion, Derision and Dread story that we’ve seen so many times. But in the end, it really doesn’t have all that much to say. The blogosphere is like Hollywood: a few stars get all the attention, and not necessarily because of any extraordinary talent. It offers the same well-duh conclusion of this recent article on the “science” of pop music popularity: faced with too many choices, people tend to make decisions based on what others (especially peers) have already chosen. In other words: the more popular a song is, the more popular it is. Thanks guys.