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I've been out of the loop for a while.... Dosh Dosh has sure climbed high on the list. #19!
I just don't quite know how to process this. Enlightened, touched and disturbed all at the time.
I really don't want to come off as overly negative, but your third point takes a shot at people needing to know how to write when you've just created a list-style article without a single sub-heading. There's basically 3 headings in this articles just screaming.... EMPHASIZE ME!
Otherwise, a decent article. Pretty straight-forward... not sure who it's going to pursuade though. The first 2 types of blogs are made that way intentionally while the last is always done by people who've already made up their minds.
I challenge anyone who reads this to try to use all 13 types of posts in this article in 1 month :D
Excellent article!
Good point cre8pc, I was looking at the challenge more from a "for people new to blogging" standpoint than a "developing your business blog, etc" view. That being said while forcing yourself to do all of these in a month is probably a poor choice in many cases... it's equally incorrect to say corporate or travel blogs should never rant. Each type of article is a tool and unique challenges sometimes require unconventional approaches.
Even in the extreme case of a blog for special needs users and video content, this still could be used when discussing the very topic of "How to get value out of video content?" where it shares unique and practical approaches of taking the video content provided in the post and making it into something digestable by a special needs user.
For every story like this that has a happy ending I wonder how many people are sitting in foreign jail sells because they got the oh so ugly... twitter is down page.
You seem to be anti-spam Jason... yet you basically spam this site with comments like that. Your most recent keynote is basically the definition of spam. You seem to say it's okay to spam everything except search engines or more to the point... do what I say, not what I do.
I get that you do this for attention/exposure, but at some point in time it stops being marketing and become the unnecessary act of burning bridges.
I think this article misses the point to a certain extent. Big Brands are wary simply b/c every single day they get hit with another get rich quick skeem. The next big thing that'll take their company to the next level! Every generation has their scams heralded by compelling statistics and the reality is that Big Brands in their time have been taken by all of them at one point or another. As a result, they have a big defense barrier towards anything new. The search field is still very under-developed and very new. There's many more horror stories than there are success stories.
Big Brands are slow to change for a reason. They stick with what works only move towards what's new once a many people have been burned to iron out the kinks. Not to mention... once they decide they are going to do anything it can easily take a year to just decide on the route to take.
This post was just another reminder of how much I despise reading a site that uses Tahoma as it's font.
I really can't get enough of these types of articles. For people like me that are blunt and opinionated by nature, text really is a terrible communication medium for being tactful since the oh so important element of body language is lost. I know that I've been an idiot more than a few times in my time learning about forums and social media. (and I'm sure I will be again)
The issue of online reputation management is massive and if there's one piece of advice I could give people on the subject. Educated your children. What you write today may very well be the difference between the job you get or lose tomorrow. (or 10 years from now)
This post acts like a nice little checklist for a new blog. #16 seemed a little bit like filler content though.
This post reminds me of the guy who watches a movie and notices that the cup is in the actor's hand during one scene and then is missing in the next and starts screaming, "Continuity Error! Continuity Error!"
It's kinda sad that the first few times there I searched around and was like... "Where do I submit?"
Good to know the answer.
You really just can't fake this part. Blog what you know. Blog what you live.
Hmm... it's interesting. It'll still need a spam button I think though. After all, I don't think we want the hated section just flooded with viagra ads. (I guess we assume people will be smart enough to just not vote either way in that case though maybe) Will this site allow vulgar and offensive content I wonder?
Numbers... for numbered lists. Please. /sigh
Anyway a nice list albeit it something I feel I've seen numerous times before and this really brings no innovation on the topic.
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When you don't have a way for users to comment on your blog of course the experience is going to feel lonely. Anyway considering this post is more a diary entry than anything actually useful and 9 of the 13 Sphinners are default green wheels... I gotta peg this one as a spam job.
Unfortunately, there still is one giant looming reason why digg is better than mixx... digg gives way more traffic.
I understand that Michelle, but if what I experienced was correct there was a story (or two) with 21 Sphinns and 8 DeSphinns leading to a net of 17 (since it used to be 2:1). One would assume that at this point it would take 5 additional Sphinns for the story to go out, but from what I saw the next Sphinn taking it to 22 made it go hot. Perhaps, I dreamed this I dunno.
Can anyone else confirm experiencing similar functionality?
Glad to see DeSphinns are now 1 to 1.
Question: If a topic has 22 Sphinns and 5 DeSphinns... is it going to go hot now like it was before?
@shansen: Thanks for the reply. I'm going to be blunt and I hope you don't take offense. I would strongly recommend that you take the time to work with a copywriter. The fact is you just gave me answers in points #3-#6, but #1 and #2 have nothing to do with the question again. Furthermore, the whole conclusion isn't about the question either.
A piece such as you've written in order for it to be effective web content needs to really say:
Yes, and this is why and this how is they'll do it.
-or-
No, and this is why and this is how they'll adapt instead.
Because while certainly you've got a fantastic grasp on the English language and clearly are intelligent, you simply don't seem to understand that you've sometimes gotta keep the answer short and more importantly to the point.
After all, I'm not asking for you to be able to back up what you are saying perfectly. I accept that you are just theorizing and as I said before, you've picked a great question, however what your response really needed to be was #3 - #6 with expanded theories on those points rather than talking for a long time about what my question wasn't even about.
This articles simply doesn't answer the question it asks and instead tells us to "watch for change". What else would we be doing?
We may not know the innerworkings or have theories of the innerworkings of Google (or whatever Big Corp), but we do understand that Google will have a lot of pressure on them.
You've posed a great question... and you simply haven't answered it. Without an answer or even a vague theory, I really fail to see where the value of this story is. Perhaps the 24 people that Sphunn it could enlighten me?
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