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i'd like to say once more for the record that this conversation should be happening (or at least replicated) on my blog so that the people who don't know about

i'd like to say once more for the record that this conversation should be happening (or at least replicated) on my blog so that the people who don't know about hacker news can participate in this discussion

bootload 18y ago
"... i'd like to say once more for the record that this conversation should be happening (or at least replicated) on my blog ..." Hey Fred, I note from your comment getting modded down indicates not too many readers care about where the conversation occurs ~ http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/05/a-vc-web-discus.html http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/05/a-vc-web-discus.htm... and thinking about it I sort of agree. Quite a few hackers, entrepreneur types have figured out there is value to be extracted from "aggregation" of links and the associated attention. The comments here and at other places like friendfeed ~ http://friendfeed.com/fredwilson/comments http://friendfeed.com/fredwilson/comments "... 10 people liked it but nobody commented ..." are the result of someone else working on building the software, creating the community and collecting this information. Maybe even making a business out of it? Downstream attention collectors are gaining the advantage by collecting your ("and many others") articles. It's not really fair, but it is also a "free market". Working for a rival VC firm does not help either. If you want your readers to benefit, do something about it. Manually summarise the best bits on your blog. Better still get some tools written to scour the Internet to do this automatically - a process that scales better. If this attention leakage, the inability to maintain and capture attention is happening to your blog, a blog with readership and attention most hackers would readily kill for, it could also be happening to others. An "itch" that needs scratching perhaps hackers?
- Mystalic 18y ago
  Fred, with all due respect, there's almost no way to centralize the conversation anymore. Twitter, FriendFeed, Social Media, Digg, Hacker News...it has spread the conversation to many, many corners so people in many niches can discuss what's going on. Yes, in an ideal world, the conversation would happen in one place (that's part of why I think Disqus was a great investment and FriendFeed is destined for greatness), but this is a fragmented world and fragmented conversations are going to always be a part of the world's dynamic.
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  - danielha 18y ago
    working on it.
  - fredwilson 18y ago
    totally agree that it's "happening" everywhere now but what i want is for it to be recorded and synched everywhere as well
    - Mystalic 18y ago
      Then we need to build the technology. Hm, I'm thinking of ways now...

bootload 18y ago

"... i'd like to say once more for the record that this conversation should be happening (or at least replicated) on my blog ..." Hey Fred, I note from your comment getting modded down indicates not too many readers care about where the conversation occurs ~ http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/05/a-vc-web-discus.html http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2008/05/a-vc-web-discus.htm... and thinking about it I sort of agree. Quite a few hackers, entrepreneur types have figured out there is value to be extracted from "aggregation" of links and the associated attention. The comments here and at other places like friendfeed ~ http://friendfeed.com/fredwilson/comments http://friendfeed.com/fredwilson/comments "... 10 people liked it but nobody commented ..." are the result of someone else working on building the software, creating the community and collecting this information. Maybe even making a business out of it? Downstream attention collectors are gaining the advantage by collecting your ("and many others") articles. It's not really fair, but it is also a "free market". Working for a rival VC firm does not help either. If you want your readers to benefit, do something about it. Manually summarise the best bits on your blog. Better still get some tools written to scour the Internet to do this automatically - a process that scales better. If this attention leakage, the inability to maintain and capture attention is happening to your blog, a blog with readership and attention most hackers would readily kill for, it could also be happening to others. An "itch" that needs scratching perhaps hackers?

Mystalic 18y ago
Fred, with all due respect, there's almost no way to centralize the conversation anymore. Twitter, FriendFeed, Social Media, Digg, Hacker News...it has spread the conversation to many, many corners so people in many niches can discuss what's going on. Yes, in an ideal world, the conversation would happen in one place (that's part of why I think Disqus was a great investment and FriendFeed is destined for greatness), but this is a fragmented world and fragmented conversations are going to always be a part of the world's dynamic.
- deleted 18y ago
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- danielha 18y ago
  working on it.
- fredwilson 18y ago
  totally agree that it's "happening" everywhere now but what i want is for it to be recorded and synched everywhere as well
  - Mystalic 18y ago
    Then we need to build the technology. Hm, I'm thinking of ways now...