Congratulations my friends. Just by reading this kind of website, you are leading a new curve in Internet readership.
According to David Sifry, founder of Technorati and one of the brightest lightbulbs out there, the future belongs to "The Magic Middle" -- a bracket of 155,000 blogs (including ThePublishingSpot in what I like to call the low low Magic Middle) with between 20 and 1000 links from other blogs.
Check out his essay and links:
"This realm of publishing, which I call "The Magic Middle" of the attention curve, highlights some of the most interesting and influential bloggers and publishers that are often writing about topics that are topical or niche, like Chocolate and Zucchini on food, Wi-fi Net News on Wireless networking, TechCrunch on Internet Companies, Blogging Baby on parenting, Yarn Harlot on knitting, or Stereogum on music - these are blogs that are interesting, topical, and influential, and in some cases are radically changing the economics of trade publishing."
So three cheers for you for sticking with me in the low low middle, rather than just reading the A-List. I appreciate your help, and I'll keep feeding you some quality niche-writing material to think about. We are going to figure out this crazy publishing market together...
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