Internet: Serious Business
January 9th, 2008
NY Times: Blogging Will Kill You
“I was a corporate lawyer and an entrepreneur, and I know about working all the time. But now, you’re always worried a big story is breaking in your e-mail, and if you wait an hour, you’ll miss it. Every morning when I wake up, the panic hits and I have to see my e-mail as soon as possible.”
Clearly I am far too slack a blogger. I pretty much never wake up with panic attacks about this blog, ever.
In your case, the panic attacks shouldn’t come from missing breaking stories but instead their subject.
BREAKING NEWS:
Second Life – 11:34 PM
Resident Abraham Lincoln Screws a Flaming Couch During Oracle Press Conference
Until I leak some alpha screen shots from your MMOG!
I think you wake up with panic attacks about how the blog looks and how best to redesign it.
…But this latest website re-design has “panic” written all over it, though
I fear change!
I reloaded the page twice to make sure my browser hadn’t been hijacked!
Ugliest blog sex-change evarrr.
The only time I felt that way was when I played Travian.
For a moment I thought it was going to be a post about the blog I occasionally read by that name.. o:
In other news, your blog became ugly.
I like it.
I like this design except for the fact that, like all the previous designs, it still has too much bullshit on the sides.
IMPROVEMENT.
I kinda like the new design. Looks very… official? Although the spartan look of the last few earlier ones was kinda cool too.
Anyway, who cares what I think?
I like the new design but I’d come here if it was covered in poo and I could smell it through my speakers.
The internet is indeed, super serious business.
‘Breaking’ a story is ridiculously over-rated.
Quality and Insight builds a readership. Being ‘first’ gets you a pile of Digg hits that will never come back. Better to hold the attention of a solid audience than kill yourself trying to score enough big hits to survive the lean times.