For all of the talk in the blogosphere about niches and focus, it’s almost undeniable that we all live in intersections. Don’t we all have more than one interest? (Yes, besides blogging or social media.) Aren’t we multi-dimensional beings?
I believe that we all live in intersections of interests, backgrounds, and knowledge. In fact, I think we are those intersections personified. And, for lack of a better term, that makes us interesting.
As an example, this is how I would visualize where I sit in the blogosphere.
First off, I don’t claim to be an expert in any one of these areas, but I do have an interest in all of them.
I started off as a personal blogger, although you could rightly argue that I didn’t get terribly personal in the original incarnation of my blog. Most of the people that I enjoyed interacting with in that segment of the blogosphere are in my Blogroll.
Before I dug deep into blogging, I spent a lot of time with social news, bookmarking, and so on. I was very active in Digg, StumbleUpon and other sites at different points in time. I met some interesting people in those communities and I learned a lot in the process.
Lately I’m more interested into the theory and applications of social media and I’ve been participating in more of those conversations. FriendFeed the comment nexus has been a real catalyst for this interest and I’ve been interacting with more cool people (and even more cool people).
I have continously been interested in geeky fun stuff, whether it’s technology or popular culture. This might be a future area of exploration for me. I’m actually hoping to have a guest post at an up and coming pop culture blog (geek culture? Movie/TV/comic books/gaming blog?) in the near future.
So this is the intersection where I lie, because somehow, over time, I manage to blend these interests into Broadcasting Brain.
If we are the sum of our experiences, then it’s inevitable that our interests will bleed into our main niche. Giving ourselves some wiggle room to explore multiple niches helps keep everything interesting, I think.
How about you? What roads meet at your intersection?
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