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This is a question I hear all the time. I thought I’d write a bit of an introduction to the topic. Check out “The difference between a web site and a blog” on Squidoo.
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Even without knowing whether the criticism of the client was deserved: for a single act, or a pattern of action, or not at all, it struck me that they were in a very tough and unfair spot. If you look at nasty blog posts or comment streams, it is hard to deny that there’s a piling on, hit them when they are down dynamic.
When hearing the people and effort that this client had deployed to try to respond to this, and how helpless they felt, i did feel sympathy. Once a thread about your company, or your product, or yourself, starts up, and gets interesting, it gathers a crowd, maybe because they agree, but just as easily because the attacker is funny or outrageous or clever in an evil way.
And then Google gets a hold of it, and before long negative diatribes become number one and two hits when people search for it. And there’s not a thing you can do about it.
Basically what’s going on is that individuals (bloggers but just as easily comment posters) invest almost no time, equipment or money to create essentially an attack which gets magnified 10 or 100 fold by the crowd mentality and then the search engines, and which the target, no matter how much time, equipment or money, cannot really defend against, even when it’s totally untrue or unfair. Asymmetrical conflict.
Yeah I know this is the way it goes on the web and it’s just one dark flip side of all the good that we get from the internet. But I know I personally will think twice before zipping off a blog post or comment in anger.
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I just wrote a few brief tutorials that I thought might be of interest to you and, well, everyone. Please check them out - if you find them useful, please pass them on to your friends!
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Sadly we are to the last of the Demo 2008 events. I am writing at the 3/4 point and so far it has been an excellent experience.
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Yesterday was a busy day! I saw lots of excellent products and ideas. I don’t know how useful the Liveblog was for y’all, but it was a handy way to have me take notes and concentrate on what was happening. You wouldn’t think you need help concentrating, but sitting in a big dark room for hours on end can wear out your attention span.
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Getting ready for the next segment, here’s my continued Liveblog of the event, using CoverItLive.
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Check out these 10 Commandments for Facebook Applications. They are pretty good commandments for software in general. I especially like:
“Make it simple. Users DO NOT read.”, from FaceReviews
Yup, I have seen that time and time again with BlogBridge. Hard to believe. But true. Of course there’s the 1 in a thousand who ask for more documentation, but they are very rare.
[if you are interested in Facebook, take a look at BlogBridge’s Guide of Facebook blogs and feeds]
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Have you noticed? How frequently I’ve been posting?
I am using WordPress’s ‘post in the future’ feature so in one sitting I can rattle off 6 or 7 posts (for example I am writing this one on December 
and schedule them for publication in the coming days.
Very efficient 
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Recently there was a comment to one of my post asking the perennial question that non-bloggers ask of bloggers, (and bloggers ask of themselve all the time too
“Hello,
I was wondering if you could answer these 3 simple questions for a school project about blogging. It would be great if you could help me out. THANKS
- How did you get into blogging?
- What drives you to blog about something?
- How has blogging affected you?”
If you search around you will find numerous people who have answered this question over the years, including my own self. So I won’t wax too philosophically but just give you my gut responses to these questions:
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Check out this post!
“Vitamins can help with the aging process as well as preventing premature aging. For more information on vitamins , you may want to visit Vitamins Explained. Vitamins A, E, C, and the B complex vitamins How To Approach Anti-Aging Treatments.
BlogBridge release 5.10 now with more vitamins (Pito’s Blog): Over on BlogBridge we just announced that release 5.10 just came out, you should try BlogBridge out! In the post there is also a review and explanation of the difference between our bi-weekly development releases and our full-fledged stable releases which come out every 6 or so months…[snip…]”
(from: Vitamins)
This is from one of my many SmartFeeds caught this in its net…. This purports to be a blog about vitamins, but obviously it’s robot generated and it deemed to pick up my lame joke about BlogBridge, now with more vitamins…
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