[mladenkovacevic]

I don't know much about Svbtle but there's something so un-exciting and unapproachable about the way they describe their objectives:

>Svbtle is a curated, invite-only collection of great people who have things to say. ... >Our goal is to make it easier and more natural for interesting people to write down their thoughts. ... >Think you should be a part of the network? Apply for membership below.

The most exciting thing about idea exchanges (whether in oral or written form) is the openness of it. You can go out into the world wide web and read as much or as little as you want. You can have favorite sources of information, least favorite sources and have some of your beliefs confirmed, while turning other ones on their head.

In Svbtle, it seems like everyone is a self-proclaimed "great" person with interesting things to say. Then the Svbtle network invites you, gives you a stark blog theme to share your brilliant thoughts with other people of equal greatness. I guess the quality of content will ultimately be deciding factor of whether this has merit, but for right now I can't get excited about it.

[wmf]

I just realized that Svbtle is like TED or TEDx for blogging, and those have been very successful.

[loceng]

It seems to reflect Dustin's attitude overall, though. In reality they have traction because it's an invite-only club they're doing.