Economy of the Internet--comment currency & link IOUs

[idiosyncreant]

One of those hazy "the real world as spec fic" realizations came to me yesterday. It had something to do with the way icon-making is an internet swap-meet (appropriately derivative and grass-roots), and the way Cory Doctorow talked about the unweildiness of copyright laws as they stand being applied to the Internet and electric media. The inciting

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[quixhobbit]

I love the idea of links and comments as currency. You're hitting my ex-sociologist funny bone. Explore more! :)

[idiosyncreant]

I'm more of a pre-sociologist, but I thought it was an interesting idea...

I'll have to keep bringing it up. The down-side of the LJ sub-economy is that the Friends Page prioritizes chronologically and if you happen to write on a day when subscribers don't check it soon enough you are in the slush zone at the bottom.

Or so I extrapolate from my feelings about the friends page.

[hysteresismonky]

My experience is the same. Even meta-the-same: I notice that I get friend-page-fatigue, and I think, hm, that'll probably affect how many people read my postings, too

[idiosyncreant]

*head spins

[ext_104100]

I remember Dave once commented on my blog. Once. It was momentous. But there are many besides him who don't seem to understand the quid-pro-quo of the blogosphere. I regularly comment on my friends blogs because I know I wouldn't write if I didn't get that token comment. But, besides you lovely Red, it's all my blogless friends who comment on mine.

[ext_104100]

I go on blogging, even in a drought of comment, but I get bitter, and tend to start something new (even new accounts) where I will finally be appreciated!

Well, sometimes.

*shhhh about Dave! I wasn't naming names on purpose!*

I think some people don't really engage enough to interact in a commenting way, actually. This is why I never got an A+ during Insight, I realized the other day. (And I got plenty of compensating interestingly LOW grades, since it was my first grading experience outside the SAT and Japanese public school.)
I only really cared about the discussions, and the bookwork was just prep.

It's all about the commenting!

Do you see my response comments somehow or do you have to come in search of them? Thanks for coming over, by the way! I appreciate your comments very much. The widow's mite, you may say--the widow being me, though the mite is yours, if you can see through the analogy here.

[ext_104100]

I come looking for them. But such the faithful commenter you are I generally trust that they'll be here. I'm sure I occasionally miss some though, having forgotten my commenting in the first place.