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9Jan/08Off

Internet: Serious Business

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.

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  1. 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

  2. Until I leak some alpha screen shots from your MMOG!

  3. I think you wake up with panic attacks about how the blog looks and how best to redesign it.

  4. …But this latest website re-design has “panic” written all over it, though ;)

  5. I fear change!
    :(

  6. I reloaded the page twice to make sure my browser hadn’t been hijacked!

  7. Ugliest blog sex-change evarrr.

  8. The only time I felt that way was when I played Travian. :)

  9. 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.

  10. I like it.

  11. I like this design except for the fact that, like all the previous designs, it still has too much bullshit on the sides.

    IMPROVEMENT.

  12. 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?

  13. 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.

  14. ‘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.


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