The idea of building my own lens - about business blogging, of course! - is appealing, but I'd rather focus my blogging time and energy on what I have right here - and on discussing things with you. Michael Pollock at Small Business Branding has the same problem with Squidoo as I do - "it seems like a waste of time and energy," as he says, considering the importance of posting to, improving and publicizing the blogs we already have.
However, I believe Squidoo might just spark more conversation about collaborative communication and get a whole lot of otherwise Web-wary folks into blogging - well, in this case, "lensing" for money. So, business bloggers, keep an eye on the gazing eye of Squidoo. So far, it counts 4,280 lenses and $64.45 earned (by its lensers, I presume). Personally, I'd like it succeed, so that we all can have another good source of distilled information to guide us around the Web and the world.
Have you tried Squidooing? Any thoughts for the rest of us? Feel free to share.
Easton, as we know that with most of the contents on Squidoo, it won't be original. It will be more of links, pointers and such other material. Now it also relies on Technorati tags for tagging purposes, why should I just not go to Technorati? And making Squidoo's does not really make any body an expert on the topic then any other person who blogs well at that topic and can be found from Technorati and del.icio.us tags.
I think more better could have been done on explaining us giving examples why we would really use Squidoo.
Posted by: Tejas Patel | December 7, 2005 9:41 PM | Permalink to Comment