A quick skirt through my Bloglines favourites backs a growing sense of circularity within the Blogosphere. For example:

• Steve Ballmer downplaying RSS (5 mentions + this one...)
• The Pitbull PR method (4 mentions)
• And finally, yes, I had heard there’s a Star Wars film out (too many to count)

Is much of the Blogosphere a mutual exercise in back slapping or has it truly become the conversation it is held up to be? It’s fair to say that the ever growing number of bloggers doesn’t necessarily convert into equivalent original material.

Yes, people do get their daily fix of digital information in different ways. Some through news aggregators, some through search engines, some through particular bloggers... Aren’t bloggers just helping people find the key stories of the day?

My worry is that the Blogosphere sometimes spends too much time pushing the same information around without adding enough value to it. Can the desire to post overcome the need to?

Or have I heard this argument somewhere before?