Show HN: glipho.com, social macroblogging

glipho.com

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I have a WordPress blog. I have a Twitter account. I don't see what this would do for me.

I've had a Wordpress blog for ages and wasn't getting hardly any recognition for what I wrote. 1 or 2 comments here and there, but that's about the most is get from it. I do like Wordpress and the sense of individuality about it, but glipho has everything it does and doesn't. I joined glipho a couple of months back and you can see the community of bloggers, writers and readers interacting waaaay more then I've seen on my Wordpress blog. Plus, all I have to do is WRITE, I don't have to worry about anything else which is what I think ALL writers NEED.

I love reading, what's your blog mike? :)

This logic works until scale, then it's the same 'signal to noise' problem all social networks have. Tumblr, Wordpress, and Blogger all claimed to help build communities around user content at one point...and now Quora is throwing its hat in the ring. I use all four for blogging and rarely get any attention I didn't create the old fashioned way (self-promotion).

I think what's been built here is cool and wish you the best, I'm just doubtful that the proposed value prop allows Glipho to differentiate from the pack.

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