You're sort of arguing against yourself here. In the scheme of things, the sort of blind luck of getting slashdotted or having a significant blog market is not

You're sort of arguing against yourself here. In the scheme of things, the sort of blind luck of getting slashdotted or having a significant blog market is nothing compared to the general effort put into startups. Think of something that work win if it had a network. Think of a way to seed the network. FTW.