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This isn't really about blogging, it's more about the content submitted to Hacker News. Before Hacker News was big, people didn't write blog posts targeted at
by awt 16y ago
This isn't really about blogging, it's more about the content submitted to Hacker News. Before Hacker News was big, people didn't write blog posts targeted at Hacker News, so there weren't many blog posts targeted at Hacker News ON Hacker News. Now that Hacker News is big, ratio of blog posts targeted at hacker news to all other links is increasing. So I, as a Hacker News reader am experiencing something of an echo chamber effect.
- jacquesm 16y agoI used to write longish 'self posts' but people were complaining about reading 'gray on gray' so I moved them to my blog with the comments turned off. So that's one example of posts specifically targeted to the HN audience. The echo chamber is in the end only as large as the world is, the bigger HN gets the smaller such an effect would be, even if people targeted HN specifically in their writings. But the vast majority of the postings are not like that, and those that are are - at least to me - quite often either useful or interesting.