about the blogging policy

相変わらず、更新頻度が低いままでいますが、きょうたまたま、こんな記事を見つけました。

Dave Sifry, who founded the blog search engine Technorati, believes that the secret to creating a successful blog is to specialize in a certain topic. This will help attract attention from other bloggers and push the blog into what Sifry calls the "Magic Middle" of the blogosphere, he argued in a blog posting earlier this month.
（CNET.com February 23, 2006）

"Magic Middle"については次のような解説があります。

This realm of publishing, which I call "The Magic Middle" of the attention curve, highlights some of the most interesting and influential bloggers and publishers that are often writing about topics that are topical or niche, like Chocolate and Zucchini on food, Wi-fi Net News on Wireless networking, TechCrunch on Internet Companies, Blogging Baby on parenting, Yarn Harlot on knitting, or Stereogum on music - these are blogs that are interesting, topical, and influential, and in some cases are radically changing the economics of trade publishing.
（http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000420.html）

そう考えると、応用言語学に特化したブログも悪くはないのかなって思っています。