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I’ve never been that good at keeping this blog consistent. I’ve done the usual hot/cold thing. And then I gave that constant nagging feeling that I should be writing a post.

One of the excuses I use is not being at my rig that often since I got my iPod Touch. I’ve now configured the WordPress app for the Touch. So let’s see if that helps.

So I was thinking (which is a way of saying I was scenario-planning) the other day about the far-end of the social media marketing spectrum:

What if you didn’t have a website at all

Instead devote all of the man-hours (sorry ladies, I just can’t bring myself to write person-hours yet) you might spend developing it, dealing with the developers etc and just spent that time on social media sites being a good citizen. Read the rest of this entry »

Awhile back on one of my clients who keeps a blog was becoming a bit overwhelmed the comment traffic. It was all more or less good commenting, not spam anyway. But the commentators would tend to get off topic and use the threads more like one might use a forum or chat channel. Sort of like having someone doodle in the margins of your essays. And not relevant adding commentary on the essay sort of doodling, but more like daydreaming doodline or passing notes in class sort of doodling.

There is a part of me that loves this. That people can just have their conversation and we’re not really in control of it beyond starting it. But there does seem to be some level beyond which it nears trolldom (though often unwitting trolldom, sort of like the well meaning friend who shows up drunk to every party). Ahh the joys of the intertubes.

I guess it’s worth remembering that commenting on someone else’s blog doesn’t make us bloggers (not that n0d3 has that problem, obviously).