The focus

I think this experiment is going alright. I’ve settled on posting items singly, I’ve announced the first clique reshuffle, and I’ve streamlined the way posts are presented both on the site and in the RSS feed.

What might not be as obvious is the slight shift in focus. Instead of posting links that seem to have appealed to a large number of people already (based on the number of times they’ve been bookmarked in delicious), I’m focusing on bookmarks shared by only a handful. That doesn’t mean I won’t occasionally post something that’s been well-loved, just that I’ll do it less often.

I don’t want The Daily Clique to be about what people in the clique have read and shared that everybody else has; I want it to be about what people in the clique have read and shared that almost nobody has.

Put another way: if I’m going to tell a story about twenty-one strangers using nothing more than their shared bookmarks, I need to focus on what makes them different from the millions of other delicious-using strangers.