Idle Thoughts Instead Of A Station Ident

Funny thing I've noticed lately. I get fewer trackbacks than I did when this site had fewer readers. I presume this speaks to the supposed "death of blogging," and that linking has moved off into Twitter from blogs and sites. Makes it harder to judge when "attention philanthropy" is working, though. Aside from the occasional note telling me that I've killed someone's website.

Attention philanthropy — I have a feeling that term was coined by Alex Steffen — is a big part of what I do...