On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who is the "elite blogger" ? Why are we targeting him? Why does he care what > goes on under the hood? > Living on a university campus, I see lots of students with MacBooks, iMacs, > etc. And with the market share they have (at least here in the US), they are > certainly not "elite". > ~Randy > On Aug 30, 2008, at 3:44 AM, Michael Heilemann wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 00:15, Randy Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> How does "under the hood" matter to the average blogger? > > The average blogger isn't as interesting as the 'elite' blogger. It's the > Apple approach. I'm the expert in my family, if anyone wants to know > something about computers, they come to me. Apple converted me, and now I > always recommend their products over anything else. > And we _have_ pimpable features, like Monolith. > -- > Michael Heilemann > http://binarybonsai.com
Good question Randy. The elite blogger is one that many listen to and follow, as much for guidance as for enjoyment. They are not "elite" in the sense of "more perfect", rather they are often considered to have a valued judgement. They've been around long enough to establish a really solid readership. And they often know their blogging platform backwards. And how to build designs folks like myself can only dream of. If you 'sell' habari to that type of blogger - and they understand what is on offer. They will broadcast that to more people in a single post, than, perhaps, a big ass advertisement on a bunch of smaller sites. Imagine if Gruber, Storey or Kottke changed to a different blogging platform, how much of an impact would that have on their readers? How many more people would take the plunge? Often an entire community can be built from word-of-mouth from large players. Now, I may be wrong here - but I think I'm right. Michael was responsible, in many ways, for my efforts in making a splash (messy, or otherwise) via this thing we call blogging [hah, I can see you chocking now Mike :) ]. And his voice has enough weight to bring me into the fold - I'm a big TXP nut and was a stalwart Wordpress user until.. well, until they lost sight of how important the end user is. So, if you're going to target anyone - you want the community leaders. Whether you call them elite, or simple 'smart people' is pretty irrelevant - their voice carries weight - they will be the ones to show case just what this amazingly good platform is capable of. And when that happens, everyone starts taking note. Like I did. I may be out-of-line even opening my mouth here, but this is one of the few platforms left with any hope of making a solid connection with the vast blogging community. Maybe that's worth thinking about before making assumptions about the relevance (or supposed lack there of) of what is under the hood. :) Best, Brendan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/habari-dev -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
