"This concept is named 'universal audience' and discussed with great brilliance in a book by Chaïm Perelman and Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, called in English The New Rhetoric, which I much recommend."
Thanks for the reference, I'll check this out. There are definitely certain things that are always universally interesting to people, e.g. new ways their children could be in danger. The cool thing about the Internet though is that we can do things like, say, download 1M+ comments tagged 'interesting' on Slashdot and look for patterns that other people have missed.
This is also basically the way I created and validated this framework, e.g. every 'insightful' comment on Slashdot either fit into this framework, or else the framework had to be changed, or else I had to decide it wasn't really insightful. If I ever wanted to turn this into a PhD dissertation or something then I would actually do this transparently at a very large scale, so that people could easily see for themselves that it's actually a very robust and actionable model.
Thanks for the reference, I'll check this out. There are definitely certain things that are always universally interesting to people, e.g. new ways their children could be in danger. The cool thing about the Internet though is that we can do things like, say, download 1M+ comments tagged 'interesting' on Slashdot and look for patterns that other people have missed.
This is also basically the way I created and validated this framework, e.g. every 'insightful' comment on Slashdot either fit into this framework, or else the framework had to be changed, or else I had to decide it wasn't really insightful. If I ever wanted to turn this into a PhD dissertation or something then I would actually do this transparently at a very large scale, so that people could easily see for themselves that it's actually a very robust and actionable model.