This is How a Good Idea Goes Bad

Dec 29, 2006

A few days ago Seth Godin had started a a Z List on Squidoo as opposed to the much-hyped A-list where he wanted to bring to fore blogs that are good (hint, hint) but don’t get the deserved exposure. This somehow got changed into a meme and many bloggers added, subtracted and re-arranged the list and published their own versions on their blogs. I came across this list for the first time on Brian’s Copyblogger blog. After that I noticed the list had appeared on many blogs.

Seth has written an update on the whole issue and he is so worried about the manipulation that he has decided to get the list moderated. Bloggers have been promoting their own links and they’ve been pushing the other bloggers’ list towards the bottom and for this they are even collaborating with “friendly” bloggers. This totally defeats the original idea behind the list, and this is a perfect example of how even a good idea can turn into a bad idea if it gets in the hands of wrong people.

Another extremely deplorable thing was, nobody included my name in the list :-).

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