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What exactly is blogging redundancy?

It's my natural language description of the phenomenon of blogs that write pretty much only about other blogs or internet content rather than writing original content or social/political/economic/pop culture commentary.

The strange thing is that this is often how a smaller blog or website can be discovered and thrust into the internet equivalent of fifteen minutes of fame, and many blogs try to write posts and link to blogs in this category and other, more well-known blogs, in order to gain notoriety and readership in a highly competitive, changing market.

Blogs that deal only with discovering other internet content are, therefore, often the best way to sort through the personal blogs, the dross, and the repetitive clamor that is the most common hallmark of this Web 2.0 technology to find the reader-deserving gems in the rubble.

For the purposes of this LIS 637 assignment at the University of Kentucky, I'm going to attempt to identify some of the blogs that deal with sifting through the masses and can make (by showing or linking to another, lesser-known internet site or blog) or break (by continuing to ignore or making fun of another blog, news story, or internet site) a piece of information in these information-infested waters.

While they may be technically redundant, since they don't really publish significant amounts of original content, they serve a vital function by being more accessible and having a more established influence than any feed reader, even though RSS technology may seem more suited to the task of weeding out the good blogs from the bad.