Squidoo. Clever idea or funny name? Perhaps both, if you really want to get down to it. And I think the points being brought up below warrant our collective attention in regard to this concept of everybody having something to contribute.

I was reading a little e-book by Seth Godin the other day called “Everyone’s an Expert” which turned out to be a big promo for his new venture: Squidoo (it’s not live yet — so there’s not much to look at).

In this little book (it’s quite good), Godin brings up the eternal problem with blogs: they’re very transient. Stuff rolls down the front page, and a newcomer reading the page might very well be bewildered since there’s a bunch of stuff with no context, and a lot of it might be related to other stuff the user hasn’t read.

We’re talked about this before, of course, when we discussed (several times), the difference between posts and pages, and — more accurately — the difference between wikis and blogs in our post on Hurricane Ivan. In that post, we said: [Read the rest]

Tags: blog, squidoo, everyone’s an expert, wiki