Talent, well applied, can make big things happen on the internet.
The internet is a giant magnifying glass; it doesn’t change things, but it makes things ever so much more so.
Great stuff on the internet is ever so much greater than great stuff drawn from a smaller pool. Great stuff makes it bigger on the internet than in front of a smaller audience.
Horrible stuff is so much worse on the internet. Online, you truly do find the worst of the worst.
And the mediocre, unremarkable stuff languishes ever so much more in the doldrums of mediocrity. It is ever so much more average when surrounded by millions of things exactly the same as it. It gets ever so much more so lost in the shuffle.
Sigh- but then I fished up a languishing blog post today on a blog abandoned a year ago by a home-schooling Mom down in the States somewhere. Entertaining writing actually. So there’s a smidgen of hope. I left a comment- wonder if she’ll ever see it.
It’s interesting that the word I used was, “languishing”.
Isn’t it funny – if we never blogged at all, billions of people would pay absolutely no attention whatsoever to our idle thoughts and wonderings – and it wouldn’t even occur to us that we should be bothered about it.
However, once we put them into text, the fact that they are ignored and therefore “languishing” makes us feel, well, precisely as small as we really are. We get the same lack of attention but it’s somehow… unsatisfying.