10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

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10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

Links that got my attention PJNet Today: Harvard Study: Youth Not Acquiring News Habit 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber ~ Chris Pirillo Tech Boom, Media Bust - Forbes.com Ron Paul: A Distributed Web 2.0 Campaign Did Assignment Zero Fail? A Look Back, and Lessons Learned EmacsW32 Home Page apache friends - xampp EdCone.com: Even worse than it appears

. Not because he’s a self-proclaimed web guru. Rather, because his articles are almost invariably long and painful to read. Treat yourself to something nice, and don’t click on the preceding link. Recently, he caused a bit of a scandal in the echo chamber

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argumentative. Gotta love arguments. When two or more people disagree, without resorting to violence, it’s always good. How else does one learn than by making mistakes or arguing with the standard or new procedures? BTW, I wrote this before reading Chris’s article - but I had a feeling I knew where it was going. Yes, the internet seems to be echoing the same tune daily, with millions of sites talking the same issues. Favourite website of the day. Yes, it is ice-cream. But it

driven by the author’s expertise vs. being reflectively driven by other sites or outside events Even if you find the rest of the article completely useless, take this advice to heart. I’m no fan of Chris Pirillo, but his 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber is a more detailed form of the same advice, and should be required reading for every blogger. As with everything else in life, what you get out of blogging is directly proportional to what you put into it. Let us know there’s a unique human being in

to count the number of non-white bloggers whose writings I frequent. I always knew that the community we call the “EduBlogosphere” felt cozy, and now I better understand why. I also better understand why so many accuse the blogosphere of sounding like an echo chamber – it has been probably due (in part) to our community’s homogeneity. Carter’s (1998) conclusion is perfect: Educators and cultural workers must become “critical friends” willing to contest and erase the boundaries imposed by

t have a right to post your thoughts at the bottom of someone else’s thoughts. That’s not freedom of expression, that’s an infringement on their freedom of expression. Get your own space.” (blogging, comments, communication) [BLOG] 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber (chris.pirillo.com, 84 saves, 83 inbound links, 3 diggs) Avoid parroting everything other people say and have original ideas. (blogging, tips, creativity) [NSFW] The Top 10 Weirdest and Funniest Japanese Condoms

. Not because he’s a self-proclaimed web guru. Rather, because his articles are almost invariably long and painful to read. Treat yourself to something nice, and don’t click on the preceding link. Recently, he caused a bit of a scandal in the echo chamber that is such a tiny part of the blogging universe. “Write articles, not blog postings” is full of great advice - if you’re a business growing an online presence. Sadly, the entire blagoweb missed the part with bright blue underlined words: “For

Hmm.. “echo chamber”. That might be some term people are using everywhere, but it’s the first time I’ve heard it used in this context. Makes sense. It’s also the reason why, even though I have a blog, I only read a handful of them. There might be 10 million blogs on the web, but they are all talking about the same things.

Dude you are crazy. Do you know how big my feed que would be if I neglect it even for 1 day let alone a week?

In all seriousness, great post and it is something I struggle with is to not run with the crowd in recycling the same stuff everyday.

So in other words you try to remain aloof? In your case Chris you are marketing “Chris Pirillo” so this works but even you have to link to accurate sources from time to time to do well in search engines. Can I add an 11?

11. Be careful not to become too preachy with “10 ways” type posts, just as with lists there are already many people doing this as linkbait. If you are going to become a blog evangelist fill a slot that is not already taken.

I scan dozens of blogs a day, and don’t use a feed reader, preferring to use bookmarks opened in the left sidebar. It’s faster, plus you get to be on the actual site and have the look and feel.

Your comments are on target. Yes, it is hard to come up with new stuff. But that’s what keeps people coming back. Also important is knowing what you want to do. My main blog is hard left antiwar political. It’s gotten bigger than I thought it would, but the focus isn’t hits, it’s convincing people and creating new organizers.

The good blogs have focus. Plus, regular and steady posting. That’s also key.

I think that you are suggesting we all do the collective and honorable thing when you look at the web from a world-view. However, I would imagine, that each blogger tends to view their blog as a mini-world. If I don’t speak to current events on my blog, then I am less relevant. Perhaps my readers rely on me to aggregate the hundreds of sites & topics they don’t have time to track. Likewise, I don’t read dozens of blogs a day in order to mathmatically figure out which gaps have been left, and then fill them for the common good. I like these voices, these topics. As a human being, I want to be a part of these conversations.

12. Unsubscribe from Chris Pirillo.

Is there an echo in here?…

Got up early this morning (6:30 AM … gasp) and was skimming my feeds (I am such a geek) while watching Tin Cup (I’m not ……

[...] Opinion Aug 22 at 3:15 pm by Matt Craven -Chris Pirillo wrote on Friday about his 10 ways to eliminate the echo chamber. His post contained some great ideas about how to get beyond the “A List”, so to speak, and look at some fresh ideas. [...]

[...] Technology bloggers are so much more advanced in their blogging problems that they have to worry about things like the Echo Chamber. Since linking is still a novel enough concept in real estate, this is not really an issue within the real estate blogosphere. None the less, advice like “say something original once a day” is good stuff that we could all benefit from. [...]

I agree about point, um, 11, about staying away from the feed reader. I did this for most of July, and it reminded me of two things:

-It’ s a big world out there beyond this hopeless little screen.
-Topics on the blogophere are (and I’m being charitable) spurious. Try going back three weeks and commenting about something. everyone’s moved on. Heh. Significance has a shelf life? Only on the Blogosphere

So now I have my feeds set to only show the last three days of feeds. If I’m away for a week, I’ll “miss” a bunch of stuff….

[...] I haven’t really been “in” the Web 2.0 echochamber for all that long, so I’m not really as “hip” to all the different sites that have launched in the past few years.  Therefore I may stumble upon something (believe it or not, without even having to use a service to find new things on the Internet) that others’ll say “been there, done that” or even “i came, i clicked, i registered, i validated, i made my profile, i never came back.” [...]

[...] So, that means either that Arrington’s blog hasn’t been as “top blog worthy”, or rather that the folks at Technorati got wind that people didn’t want to see Arrington dominate 4 of the 5 spots on Technology. I’m guessing it’s most likely the latter solution. It would be nice to promote more diversity on Technorati. It was getting aggravating to see the only tech posts on Crunch for a while. Technorati should implement an algorithm to only allow a top post to appear once for any given domain, so we could see what else is popular, and escape the “echo chamber“. Posted in: Blogging [...]

[...] Chirs Pirillo writes: [...]

[...] One of the better posts I’ve seen recently is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my own (the non bolded stuff) on some of them. I’m not sure I’d be quite as extreme as Chris suggests - but there’s food for thought in the list and I suspect that enacting some of his suggestions from would add new dimensions to a blog (and maybe even help a little with the echo chamber thing too): [...]

[...] Unless it is absolutely necessary.  Chris Pirillo’s post titled “10 ways to Eliminate the echo Chamber”. [...]

[...] Darren has some good points here based on a post by Chris Pirillo. A great read, but I’ll add some of the things I do regularly: [...]

[...] The blogosphere is sometimes criticized for the echo chamber effect, with many posts being hastily-written agreements with other posts. Chris Pirillo suggests 10 ways to eliminate the echo chamber. Darren Rowse describes it as one of the best posts he’s seen recently, and Darren’s post is pretty good too. [...]

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[...] 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber Chris talks about ways to reduce the “Echo Chamber Effect”. Darren has a good writeup on this list and there is some buzz in the blogoshpere following Chris’ post. My sarcasm might be lost to everyone but I really do like his advice, especially “Say something original at least once a day”. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

Perhaps I’ll put up the egg crate acoustical foam on the walls of my blog to help eliminate the echo chamber.

By the way, isn’t it interesting to see all the “me too” trackbacks for this post? :)

[...] This has been said before, but it bears repeating: Chris Pirillo — the guy behind Gnomedex — has a post with some good advice in it about how to keep your blog from becoming part of the blogosphere echo chamber, where everyone writes about the same things and then dozens of blogs pile up on Techmeme like tractor-trailers jack-knifing on the I-95. This is a problem my friend Rob Hyndman has written about recently, and so has Jeremy Zawodny. [...]

[...] Here’s a nice rant about better blog writing, specifically, ten easy ways to lose weight—er, I mean, it’s ten easy ways to make your blog entries more interesting and original. Step back and think about current events, post original thoughts, stop quoting what everyone else is quote, and more! Posted by s.j. Filed in Writing, Web [...]

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[...] So Chris Pirillo has an article on how to stop the so called Echo Chamber.I must state that by writing this article I am indeed promoting the echo chamber but believe me when I say it, I can be a hypocrite, thats just what I do. [...]

A week w/o touching a feedreader? Easy. I’m one of those people who’s still cultivating a habit to try and use the danged things! And why? Because Yahoo! went and bought http://blo.gs and have now broken it but good. No way I can add new sites to my favorites list when they disabled the search there.

Otherwise, good points. Which reminds me of a post that’s hanging out in draft mode that needs finishing.

I’m happy to say, looking at my site, that there are quite a few original posts, from musings on a book, to a recollection about a threatened local establishment, to a new flickr group I started to have social software pile-on goodness meet the uh, oh yeah, been meaning to parts of disaster preparedness, original photos of the Kennedy Space Center crawler (in light of news about the shuttle off the pad, no it’s on again).

I’ve been outside the echo chamber for goin’ on 6 years now! Guess this comment will end it. ;)

[...] Chris Pirillo has drawn up a list of 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber in the blogosphere. The phrase “Echo Chamber” refers to the tendency of an issue, once raised at a high-ranked blog, to bounce around all the other blogs until everybody is talking about the same thing, in pretty much the same way. It also refers to the unfortunate tendency for issues raised by lower-profile blogs to get little notice. The result is that high-profile bloggers all tend to end up saying the same thing and to remain relatively clueless about what more marginal people are talking about, while the marginal bloggers tend to be oriented second-hand to what the big kids write, and to have their original ideas ignored. [...]

[...] For those who haven’t guessed it yet, my Mom isn’t much of a “follower” and doesn’t really care about trends and such.  I think it’s interesting as well if you really think about Digg’s success, the more who use it as ‘their source for daily web surfing’ the less random, independent browsing we have.  Take a gander over at Duncan Riley’s post on getting out of the echochamber (inspired by problogger and Chris Pirillo), and skip on down to #6.  Good call Duncan! [...]

I don’t think blogs were designed for the sole purpose of just expressing so called ‘original thought ‘. Blogs also serve as a reference point and source of information for many.
I have a small but loyal following (mainly clients) who rely on my blog to bring them interesting stories about what’s happening in the space they (and I) find interesting. Its true, they could troll the blogesphere and find many of those stories elsewhere - but they don’t have the time and anyway why bother when they have a trusted source to go to?
I don’t aspire to be an A lister - I aspire to bringing relevant stories to my clients’ attention (no matter where they come from) and then adding a unique ‘Zealot’ perspective on what those stories may mean to my clients business and mine.
So happy to admit that many of the ’stories’ are not ‘original’ - however what is unique is …
1. The ’space’ my blog has defined for itself (a unique ‘combination’ of stories and points of view) AND
2. The ‘perspective’ (the ’so what’ of the story) that is mine.

OK I’ve had my say!

10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

[...] So I’m violating points 3, 5 and 6 (and here I’ll violate point 7 because I like to break the rules: Ruby on Rails! ha! take that chris pirillo!) by even linking to this piece but it’s got some good nuggets in it. I also betray my preoccupation with lists by wanting to add point 11 (Nigel: “this goes to 11!”), which is Stop Hanging Out With Other Geeks 24/7. Don’t go to conferences, geek dinners and product launches every night. Don’t check Dodgeball every hour and gravitate to where your nerd friends are downing cocktails. Develop friendships with people who still think of AJAX as a cleaning product. Go to events where nobody has their laptops out. How are you ever gonna get out of the echo chamber if you don’t ever consciously step outside of it? How are you ever gonna develop tools lots of different kinds of people want to use if you don’t hang out with lots of different kinds of people? tags: echo chamber, blogging, social computing, geeks, social life [...]

expressing agreement or dissenting opinion about material that’s already available elsewhere, being creative and original adds more value to your blog. Moreover, it can be real fun to do something original and out-of-the-ordinary once in a while. Chirs Pirillo writes: Don’t live inside your news aggregator. Say something original at least once a day. If warranted, quote an “unknown�? source. Don’t link to the same site more than once every two weeks. Wait a week before publishing your thoughts on hot topics.

[...] 10 ways to eliminate the echo chamber, or how to encourage creative thought rather than repetitive ruminations, from Chris Pirillo. Some additions to his list: [...]

[...] 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber Chris talks about ways to reduce the “Echo Chamber Effect�?. Darren has a good writeup on this list and there is some buzz in the blogoshpere following Chris’ post. My sarcasm might be lost to everyone but I really do like his advice, especially “Say something original at least once a day�?. [...]

from 12 Spend the time and effort to research, document and deliver and you’re virtually guaranteed link-worthy content that will attract new visitors and subscribers.I also appreciated Chris Pirillo’s 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber for it’s refreshing thinking for bloggers who may have gotten wrapped too tightly in their media space. Like me. Some quotes that resonated for me:from 1: “I save my favorite tech friends for “dessertÂ�? - catching up with their feeds at the end of

[...] Did you notice that 500 people echoed Christ Pirillo’s Eliminate the Echo Chamber post? [...]

[...] To ensure we do not end up an echo chamber have a look at Chris Pirillo’s 10 tips to eliminate the echo chamber effect. [...]

10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

around today about eliminating the echo chamber- the blogosphere phenomenon where one person says something and tons of others more or less repeat it back to her in a responsive post, like some geek chorus. Chris Pirillo started things off with his 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber. Mathew Ingram, Darren Rowse and others added their thoughts. Avoiding the echo chamber is a blogospheric phrase than means write good, original and interesting content. It means doing more than just tossing up a link and saying “me too.” It’s the

[...] To ensure we do not end up an echo chamber have a look at Chris Pirillo’s 10 tips to eliminate the echo chamber effect. [...]

10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber

[...] This post contains some basic instructions on fixing your blog. Too bad rules-based solutions to social problems rarely work. Besides, the echo chamber is just a symptom of the illness: the blogosphere is better at generating links than it is at generating content. [...]

[...] And let’s not forget that the blogosphere is also one big echo chamber. You know, blogs are often the he-said, she-said exchanges. No one seems to be coming up with original content these days. The blockquote tag has become the favorite among bloggers. Even some of the blogging A-listers are fond of link-blogging. Where’s the creativity here? [...]

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[...] Last week I found out a very interesting post which was discussing a problem that many blogs have, including mine so far, which is the fact that once a good post gets published, many bloggers just post links back to it. As a new blogger having little time to write original posts, I did that a couple of time, that is, just publishing links to other posts I found interesting. From now on, I’ll try to reduce that. I hope you’ll find more original posts here in the near future. (Anyway, I don’t have much time to read my news aggregator anyway!)). [...]

[...] Besides being lazy, one of my biggest fears in blogging is not having anything to blog about. I am amazed at some people who blog daily with actual content and not just fluff or reposts. Those blogs that just link to other blogs announcing the same news announced in a zillion other sites are not contributing anything in my opinion. If you’re not going to add anything meaningful, then why post it all when 50 million other sites out there has already announced it as well? [...]

[...] 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber Chris talks about ways to reduce the “Echo Chamber Effect”. Darren has a good writeup on this list and there is some buzz in the blogoshpere following Chris’ post. My sarcasm might be lost to everyone but I really do like his advice, especially “Say something original at least once a day”. [...]

Entertaining and good advice, but you wouldn’t think, I’d write about the “echo chamber” and trackback to your story ?
Would you ;)

[...] Chris Pirillo’s 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber is essential reading for any blogger. [...]

But you have to pay for it so i can use the time for you.

points out some of the frequently-ignored realities of clientside capability. Andrew Shorten has a great list of current Flex deployments in the UK. TechCrunch examines AmateurIllustrator, a social site for illustrators. Back in August, Chris Pirillo advised on ways to avoid the bloggy echo chamber… of course, the article then got crosslinked into the aggregators…. ;-) There’s a specs-first article on possible CSS changes: “Many exciting new functions and features are being thought up for

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so freeing. I now declare that I will seldom if ever join the echo chamber. I feel a burst of energy and liberation. The liberating post is How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog at problogger. Darren Rowse borrowed from Chris Pirillo a list of 10 ways to keep your blog out of the blogosphere’s echo chamber. Rowse and Pirillo each add their own thoughts expanding on the list items; I recommend that you click over and read what they each wrote. The list:

[...] Chris Pirillo’s written a wonderful article called “10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber”, which is a great lesson in how an article title can attract attention, but the content not match the intent of the title, as discussed recently. The only reason I clicked the link was because I was searching for information on microphones and recording equipment. Honest. [...]

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[...] On a more serious note, I found a great blogging post, 10 Ways to Eliminate the Echo Chamber, which confronts the issue of unoriginal, repetitive content (which I’m doing right now by posting the link, yay!) Darren adds his thoughts to the former post. It’s something to recall, and the primary reason I’ve held off blogging at times on Orbital in the past few months. If I have nothing particularly original/helpful/unique to add, it’s just link regurgitation — the online intellectual equivalent of a high school research paper. Lately I’ve been of the opinion that if I can’t think of anything to post, I just won’t. [...]

If I might add one more…

“Don’t bother with the posts letting us know that you won’t be blogging much in the next [timeframe], especially if you need to tell us that you can’t tell us why. Example: Light posting here the next few days - meeting with [big player name drop], will tell more later but mostly under NDA.”

When I see those, unsubscribe is a reflex action.

[...] En el fondo es una vez más un artículo acerca de orginalidad y creación de contenido, o mejor dicho, de no repetición de contenido. Existen formas de evitarlo como nos cuentan en distintos sitios (1, 2), pero lo cierto es que las medidas son, cuando menos, duras de tomar, significan romper con hábitos y seguramente reciclarte como bloguer. [...]

En el fondo es una vez más un artículo acerca de originalidad y creación de contenido, o mejor dicho, de no repetición de contenido. Existen formas de evitarlo como nos cuentan en distintos sitios (1

Let me reiterate some of the principles this network is built around on: Popularity doesn’t always equate to quality; limiting one’s reading at what every other popular blog is writing about puts one in an echo chamber, and the realization that there is a plethora of excellent albeit, underexposed content outside the echo chamber just waiting to be discovered. Take for instance Qwerky, one of the blogs included in the pioneer batch of blogs we are including in the

very seriously, but since many of you say that you return mostly to read the blog I feel that I should do something better of it. I’m making up a plan about it right now but it will not be anything special, just a refreshment. I will not step into the echo chamber or start repeating the trendy links of the day and I will also not push my opinions and views on any special topics unless it is something that I find really interesting or important. But I will write more about how I work, how I live and what I do. I

[...] These days, almost everyone is into running a weblog and trying to make money online. The availability of WordPress and cheap hosting has enabled every dreamer to go into micro–content publishing and cash their part of the AdSense pie. However, the weblog plus adsense formula has only led to eerily–similar sites, many of which bordering on content theft or simply just not providing anything valuable at all. That’s a point of argument, though certainly today’s web is not much different compared to a huge echo chamber. Even this entry echoes these entries. [...]

[...] The only thing worse than bad posts involving tiny kittens and knives, is an increasingly homogenised blogosphere choked by stock themes, and drowning in designer unoriginality. Duplicated and echoed content has always been treated as a scourge. Why not blogs which could all be classified as visual clones of each other? [...]