Sarah Perez has posted an interesting piece at ReadWriteWeb - 'The Conversation Has Left the Blogosphere'. It focuses on the difficulty the burgeoning number of content aggregation services creates: quite simply, is the quality of a conversation about a blog post diluted because it occurs at a plethora of aggregating sites (Digg, FriendFeed, Mixx, etc) rather than at the blog that kick-started the conversation?
Instinctively, I think the answer is: no, it isn't. Without the aggregating services the blogosphere is , for casual readers, an impenetrable sea of inanity - the YouTubed skateboard-riding cat of the written word. It is mainly through aggregating that a quality filter exists. Of course, that quality filter is skewed to the prejudices and preferences of those who spend most time using aggregating services (which perhaps explains the popularity of tech blogs when the googling world seems fixated on celebrity and song lyrics) but it is a lot more useful navigating with the aggregating services than without.
If there is a problem, it is probably more that the volume of aggregating services itself becomes overwhelming, and the solution to one problem creates another.
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