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Saturday, December 28, 2002 |
This year, I regularly visited the blogs of Mark Pilgrim and Peter Merzholz. Both Peter and Mark turned thirty this year.
These are two great examples of how things work with Blogs. Neither is famous from publishing a book, neither is a journalist per se. Yet both have built strong personal brands through sustained writing on the web. You can see them both furiously learning about all kinds of things and openly communicating about them. Neither knows me, but I know them. Is that spooky? Or is it really no different than the asymmetry that exists between writers or celebrities in general and their followers?
Are there more 30 year olds with sizable audiences than there were before the Web and Blogs? I'm not sure.

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