This blog from one of "2000 bloggers"

Some two weeks ago, Jack Yan was pointing me to an initiative named 2000 bloggers. It was starting out as an initative by a guy called Tino Buntic.  You can read background and why he did it in an interview here.

I thought about it as a way to increase the recognition of the first part of the Long Tail of bloggers and to put more diversity in the blog-o-sphere recognition scheme first and foremost nowadays governed by Technorati, much echoing the voice from Jack Yan about diversity. We cannot know what happens when people try to break into the scheme of the global, nah mostly American, A-list cross-linking top 100 bloggers by having an extension of 2000 linking to a collage of 2000 faces, even if it's on a random basis through a memetic viral spread. For me the pros of increasing diversity and the arena for serendipities is over-weighing the cons of randomness and potential link2me-greediness.

I made an intuitive decision in the first place, and decided that the ideas in my main blog here would be worth a try to be a part of that face-poster. So, the day before yesterday, I got featured.

Not with my name, but with my face, adding to the diversified collage, and the question I got from Ron the other day - "What should you do with 3.5 million dollars?" (as I blogged the other week). And that's great, it got me as issue-oriented (not person-). And just like that - blogging is about Big Questions with many trying to answer them, it is about conversation, it is about expressing views, it is about dialogue. From anyone, not just a number of top-bloggers called the "A-list" or "top 100 bloggers", as for now all too amero-centric.

Who governs who should be an authority on something? Technorati?

No, you.

I think the 2000 bloggers initative is a claim to be a bit subversive to increase the polyvocal and democratic-intended-to-be World-Wide Web, as originally claimed by the innovator TBL, Tim Berners Lee.

"/.../the vision I have for the Web is about anything being potentially connected with anything. It is a vision that provides us with new freedom, and allows us to grow faster than we ever could when we were fettered by the hierarchical classification systems into which we bound our-selves. It leaves the entirety of our previous ways of working as just one tool among many. It leaves our previous fears for the future as one set among many. And it brings the workings of society closer to the workings of our minds.”

The semantic, programmable web is maybe the strongest decentralization and distribution-of-power, democratic engine we've seen to date. And thus a tool that opens up the spaces for sustainopreneurship in action.

Keep it rollin! And thanks, Tino and the 2kbloggers team for getting me among the other 1 999 voices!

"Power to the People" / John Lennon

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For links about the conversation pros/cons the 2000 blogger's meme;
"Subversive Bloggers" from Devious Diva
"I don't deserve this Technorati Rank (and the other 1,999 of don't either)" from Jeremiah Owyang

Finally: Good thing we have blogs and webs. Otherwise these expressions never came out to our shared space. Right?

Comments

[deviousdiva]

Thanks for the link, Anders. I am really enjoying reading blogs by people outside my small circle. And you're right to bring up the Time magazine cover. This project has proved that sometimes the people really can refuse to be bullied by those who control things.

[Anders Abrahamsson]

You are welcome, DD. And you provide a brilliant example that enlarging bloggers to in the end include whatever letters A to Z to interact and "share the same page" makes people meet (my point with serendipities here above). And an addendum in the comment: Hey, some Technorati glitch makes me a D-blogger?? at the same time I hit top ten with generic tags "sustainability entrepreneurship" with more than half of the hits on that GOOG frontpage and also GOOG blogsearch gives me link love? - with exactly the same generic terms ending up in million plus hits in Google? I just say - strange. Yes, at the end of the day, it's all about integrity. We know where we are and where we are heading, DD. Thanks for the comment as well!

[Elaine Vigneault]

nice article you wrote there :)

[Anders Abrahamsson]

Thanks, Elaine. Keep up the sweaty work over at www.2kbloggers.com :) ! The Community Rules because the Community Rules Apply ;). Twist the Google tagline the other way around: Instead of "Do No Evil", we might say: "Be Good"!