The Phenomenon of blogging power
Brrreeeport, a game? A show-the-man? A bandwagon? An easy way to get hits? Why would so many bloggers, including me, include this nonsense word and even try to define it.
Robert Scoble started this, and he can tell you why better than I can. Technorati shows brrreeeport as the most popular tag, beating out Cheney shooting a man.
Me? I’m facinated by the phenomenon of the bandwagon. While the major search engines seemed “slow” to pick it up, the blogosphere picked it up like wild fire. Are bloggers that interested in search, or is it just a cool thing to participate in? The latter, I suspect.
As many bloggers as there are, they (we) still like to think of ourselves as anti-establishment, of being outside looking in, but slowly taking over. A community outside, or deep within, the larger Internet community.
It harkens back to the APRAnet days. Techies knew something everyone else didn’t. And we liked it that way. An inside joke, our own culture.
Brrreeeport tapped into that.