This past weekend, Danny Brown, Geoff Livingston, and I had an email conversation about the sameness of the blogosphere. Mark Schaefer has long called it the social media chamber: Something I’ve always been overly sensitive to not becoming.
Tools such as Storify quickly aggregates content, without having to create it. And paper.li pulls tweets into a newspaper-like format for you to share with your followers. Things are becoming more and more automated and not only are we repeating everything everyone says, we’re losing our creativity.
Danny says it best in “The Mind-Numbing Banality of Sameness” earlier this week: (more…)