The power of the internet is forged with hyperlinks. Google capitalized on it but now it’s the bloggers time, time for the direction of traffic to be based on premeditated linking. As more and more people link to an article or site aggregator sites (like Daypop and Blogdex) pick up that multiple people are linking to the same thing and bubble up that article. This creates a sort of chain reaction once it reaches a critical mass – and then a meme is started and everyone (at least us news fiends and bloggers) soon knows about it.
Why is it important to link to things you agree with? Because if you agree with it, then you value that person perception, and theoretically you would like others to agree with you as well. The power of linkage the power of the internet. Why am I going on about linkage? Well I read an interesting article on WiredOpinion.com about calls for someone to critique a Glenn Reynolds’s recent post on U.S. foreign policy regarding Palestinians. Instapundit is a powerful soap box and when he writes people listen and believe him. Jonathan has written excellent critique of Glenn’s rather short sited and irrational ‘call to arms’. If other people link to Jonathans piece then maybe it will reach the critical mass I was talking about earlier and come to the attention of Instapundit. It requires a communal effort but it’s often worth it, especially with matters of profound importance like people’s perception of the Palestinian people.
While I’m at the linking game I may as well direct your attention to C. C. Keiser, yet another goodie found on my 21 grams thread. This fellow has some interesting views on something he calls Poly-Solipsism which I agree with pretty strongly. It’s interesting when people can reach the same conclusions – does that validate them or just exemplify universal insanity? Who knows.
Thanks for the compliments and the link, Chef. It might be a bit more effective if you linked to the post itself (URL: http://www.wiredopinion.com/movabletype/jonathan/archives/week_2003_12_28.html#000331). That will give me a “Trackback” ping and it will allow the link to filter through the Blogosphere with ease.
Thanks again. I hope some other people read it.
-Jonathan
Oh, never mind . . . you did link straight to the article. Hmm…I wonder why I didn’t get a trackback…
I would say “Universal Insanity” is what we have now.
Unfortunately we do not have enough minds coming to the same conclusions, that is the reason we continue to exist in Chaos. It is the diversity of uncompromising and conflicting philosophies that create upheaval and discord.
As for me, I must admit to my insanity. What else can I conclude from comparing my philosophy to the beliefs of the rest of the world.
But what is Insanity? Insanity is just thinking differently than the status quo. It is perceiving the Universe in a manner foreign to those around you.
If that is the case, then I beg of you, please do not cure me of my Insanity! I do not suffer from it, I savor every minute of it!
Insanity is its own reward!
I thank you for the link, and I have returned in kind.
Chuck
I guess the problem is that it’s not quite universal then, eh? Maybe if more people went nuts the world would work a whole hell of a lot better. It kind of reminds me of ants.
No, not ‘nuts’ or crazy, just Insane! ‘O)
“Ants”?
Ok, you will have to explain that one!
My buddy Wally once told me that if you put 10 ants in ant colony they’d scratch out a living well enough, a 100 would start to get a little less survival rate, a 1000 would be completely disorganized to the point where the colony almost dies because the ants keep running into each other, but if you put 10,000 ants in an ant colony it would be so chaotic, so turbulent from all the collisions that it would find order and become an efficient successful ant colony.