danah boyd‘s blog has a whole lot more readers than mine. I thought I bellyflopped with a recent post, but a recent rough essay she published called Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace yielded a much larger response: 277 comments on her blog, 234 blog post responses (as tracked by Technorati), a mention on Boing Boing, and a SlashDot thread, not to mention main-stream media coverage on BBC News, MSNBC.com, Information Week. (See TechMeme if you really want to trace all the threads.) danah recently posted a followup, Responding to Responses to: “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” to try to address the wide array of responses she got, and to clarify some of the rough edges around her original post.

danah’s ultimate conclusion: “Perhaps I won’t be so ‘careless’ in the future, but I doubt it.” Me, too. I think the rough edges are kind of exciting. But the excitement isn’t in the flames and side-tracks, so I wonder whether there are stylistic evolutions or technical tricks that would help incubate the ideas.

Got any good ones?