Not probably the reputation they want
As I was trying to get caught up on some blog reading that I am so terribly behind on that Google Reader is starting to mock me, I stopped by This Full House. As Liz went on about how she was warning others about bringing her “skanky-ass toes” to BlogHer, I started to get excited. (NO, not about her toes… weirdo).
BlogHer ’08 is less than a month away. No, I am not attending BlogHer. Don’t get me wrong. I would love to actually see these events unfold live, and try and count how many people actually attend the breakout sessions vs those that attend to just be there. Not to mention it has been quite a long time, and San Francisco is such an awesome town to visit. But thanks to $80 bajillion dollars it would cost to fly out there these days… it is just not going to happen.
So, I will have to sit back once again and just wait… a watch… and wonder…. what will be this year’s controversy? Will we have a new term as once again a group rally against the term MommyBlogger instead demanding they be known as Female American Bloggers (FAB)? Will somebody complain that a food company adds something to the goody-bags that {gasp} has something to do with the kitchen and thus insinuating that a woman’s place is in the kitchen, and conveniently forgetting that perhaps the fact that they are a FOOD company and there is no ulterior motive behind it? Will battles continue to rage whether you have the right to monetize your blog? And how many blog posts will be written about people licking, kissing or dildos?
Don’t get me wrong. I am sure there is a lot of useful information, I know (and read) some excellent people that speak or are (were) on BlogHer panels, and there is certainly value to the conference. But, that is rarely what you see when people return home and start blogging about the events.
I doubt this is the sort of reputation that the folks BlogHer really are looking for, but it is exactly the sort of mid-summer entertainment I have come to expect (and even occasionally enjoy) as the outcome of BlogHer.
George Carlin 1937 – 2008
“Atheism is a non-prophet organization. ”
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.”
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
“A house is just a pile of stuff with a cover on it”
“I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.”
“You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.”
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
“Here’s a bumper sticker I’d like to see: “We are the proud parents of a child who’s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn’t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.”
“What was the best thing before sliced bread?”
“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”
They pay these people, huh?
In talking about Amazon.com earlier, I mentioned how Twitter has not exactly had the best record of being up and running lately. Of course, most people know by now that predominatly the cause is that the site is simply “too popular” and the site was simply not built to scale to the size needed for the number of users.
Rafe Needleman of Webware.com came up with a solution… Shut the site down. His reasoning. The site is too unreliable, and hence “nobody” is using it any more anyway.
Now, I as an “uneducated non media type” could get away with this sort of logic (or lack thereof), because well… I am not a member of the media. I am not an expert. Right? He is supposed to be the respected authority, yet to me (the unenlightened) this makes absolutely no sense.
There used to be a stupid old saying that goes something like, “Nobody goes to that restaurant any more because it is too crowded.” It was a joke, and (most) people seem to readily get the irony of it, but apparently for Rafe, this sort of “logic” can be applied to a website on the Internet. I guess things work differently in the Web 2.0 world.
My question is, how do I find a way to make idiotic statements like this (lord knows I am good at making them), and still find somebody to actually pay me to make them. Inquiring minds want to know.
Somebody’s getting fired
Earlier this week, I had several hours that my blog was down… and I was rather annoyed. Countless number of people have been annoyed by the fact that Twitter can’t seem to keep itself up and running… and several people have “left the company.” Neither my blog nor Twitter garners much in the way of direct revenue or sales. I can’t help but wonder how many people will be fired over the fact that Amazon.com is down and has been down for several hours this afternoon (as of 2:45 PM ETD).
A contest about Moms
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