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Cupertino95014 on Nov 6, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: What to blog about

A long time ago, a Web pioneer told me, "The risk on the Internet is not that you'll be ripped off. It's that you'll be ignored."

These stories of blogs going viral and the authors becoming celebrities are like Lana Turner being discovered at Schwab's soda fountain (which turns out not to be true, http://www.playgroundtothestars.com/2013/06/schwabs-drug-sto...).

kixiQu on Nov 6, 2022 [–]

There are no stories of blogs going viral and the authors becoming celebrities in the linked post.

Cupertino95014 on Nov 6, 2022 | [–]

One pedantipoint for you.

"These stories" -- I guess one could interpret that as an assertion that the stories are in the linked post. If you're looking for something to nitpick.

kixiQu on Nov 7, 2022 | | [–]

To what were you responding?

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