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Are we valuing quantitive quality over experience?

June 1, 2010 By 4 Comments

Usually experience tends to count for a lot, but when it comes to blogging Ihave come to realize that it does not matter as much. Think about it, you follow a blog because of quantity, assuming of course that it is quality content.  This feels like common knowledge when it comes to finding great blog and following them consistently, but in what other part of the society is this the case?

However, is the society changing to become more like the blogosphere?  Are we valuing quantitive quality over experience?

Think about it.

The first argument against this might be that quantitive quality is the same thing as experience. But if you take the blogosphere example it is not. A blog can be huge because it posts 60 articles a month even though it has only been running for a year. This blog can be a lot bigger than the blog of someone who posts less often but have been blogging on the same subject for many years.

Is this phenomenon spreading to other parts of the society or not?

If a person who graduated from school three years ago apply for a job and is measured against an experienced highly appreciated professional in the area, the experienced person usually win, even though the fairly recent graduate have performed great during the last few years.

In some fields, however;

Like in the IT business, it might be better to have accomplished great things in the last few years than to be very experienced, because the technology changes so fast. So there, the fairly new graduate might win the battle against the experienced professional.

What do you think? Are we valuing quantitive quality over experience?

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  • http://twitter.com/AnnelieNaes AnnelieNaes

    New blogpost: Are we valuing quantitive quality over experience? http://bit.ly/aJFqIG

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  • http://twitter.com/murnahan murnahan

    RE: @annelienaes I think there are troubling possibilities when either is too extreme. I have observed that frequency … http://disq.us/dqvo0

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  • http://www.awebguy.com Mark Aaron Murnahan

    I think there are troubling possibilities when either is too extreme. I have observed that frequency creates shocking results in blogging, often even when the content suffers for it. I would name specific blogs, but they are popular enough that it is hard to criticize them with credibility. They are accomplishing their goal, for better or worse.

    I would generally rather eat a small amount of really fine food than a huge bag of hamburgers and fries, but that is just me. I am odd in other ways, too. :-)

  • http://www.annelienaes.com Annelie Näs

    Thanks Mark for sharing! I like the comparision to the food and now exactly what you mean. I think my point was to compare with out taking the extremes in it, posting daily for example and not posting a few times per day. But either way I agree with what you say, thanks for sharing.