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The Alpha Bloggers: de virale invloed van de blogosphere

December 13th, 2004 · No Comments

In een recent NewsWeek-artikel getiteld ‘the Alpha Bloggers‘ wordt nader ingegaan op de invloed die de amerikaanse blogosphere heeft op de opinievorming in Amerika. Volgens het artikel wordt een goed concept of idee door deze ‘echokamer’ (de blogosphere) vele malen versterkt, waardoor het idee zich vervolgens als een heuse ‘viral’ zal verspreiden.

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“There indeed is an A-list, as well as important niche influencers on smaller topics,” says Dave Sifry, CEO of Technorati, a company that tracks the blogosphere. Sifry keeps a running list of them, a geek hit parade of power brokers who zing arrows and shape opinions while quaffing lattes and using the Starbucks Wi-Fi. In the tech conferences you can often spot them in person, clustering toward the wall so they can keep their laptops plugged in. No matter where they are, they maintain a running conversation with their unseen audience, which can be as big as 20,000 visitors on a good day. And though no one pays for access to their homegrown publications, they can shape opinions, as the podcast example shows. “The blogosphere is a tipping-point machine,” says Searls, referring to Malcolm Gladwell’s treatise on how ideas and trends can suddenly tilt from obscurity to ubiquity. A good idea gets amplified by the “echo chamber” of the blogosphere. It need not be the original thought of the blogger. In fact, as scientists from the HP Information Dynamics Lab wrote in a paper titled “Implicit Structure and the Dynamics of Blogspace,” ideas move on the blogosphere like viruses; the alpha bloggers spread concepts like Typhoid Marys.

Ook in Nederland is er, naast de particuliere/prive blogosphere die gevormd wordt door een aantal poplaire prive-weblogs, inmiddels ook sprake van een professionele blogosphere (of blogosfeer). De eerstgenoemde blogosfeer is reeds veelvuldig door marketeers ten behoeve van viral campagnes ingezet. De professionele blogosfeer zal hier terughoudender in zijn maar de verwachting is dat ook deze blogosfeer door slimme marketeers zal worden ingezet..

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