Day of Rest
Man, and I thought my chest + shoulders would feel better today after my tumble on Easter. But nooOOoo, they feel worse. It?s like when you pull a muscle (as I suspect this injury is), you have to really suffer before it gets better. Hell, I can?t even take a deep breath without pain.
Here?s a little diagram:
See numbers 1 and 2? Yeah, they hurt like hell, though I think #2 is actually pointing to the collar bone, when I?m indicating just a few inches below that.
Life?s a bitch and then you get old, I guess.
Anyway, today is a day of reconciliation and trying to get a grip on my little projects. I?ve been catching up on my weekend reading, which included some interesting topics such as the toothpaste debacle from Brittney to the latest interesting artwork via Drawn! While none of this is really necessary in terms of reading and absorbing, that?s the great thing about blogs and RSS (Really Simple Syndication): You can take in vast amounts of info in little time.
Did I mention I love Onfolio? Seriously, just use it already. I even wrote them a little love note for their Product Customer Profiles (I prefer the term Onfolio Slutios) page, found here (look for it in the Small Business ? Technology heading).
Anyway, of what little I do read compared to the mountain of words I don?t, I try to manage my time the best I can. One of the thoughts on my mind has been: What is a successful blog and what, exactly, makes it successful? Readership? Comments? The trend, at least to me, has been that the more readers the more comments. That?s why this blog has maybe two comments a week but the aforementioned Brittney gets dozens per post. Somehow, I guess, she got into the Cool Blog Clique and things went from there.
Anyway, I?m not jealous (okay, a little) but I am fascinated by what makes a blog popular. This was a subject covered at Insight by Design pointing towards Blog Business World, but I can?t find the exact articles referenced and I don?t have time to extract them from the massive amount of noise on the latter.
Lastly, the world of corporate faux-blogging (a trucker hat slogan just waiting to happen) has begun. Scoble notes as much, and so does the insightful GapingVoid.
If you?d like to see a corporate blog that isn?t complete horseshit, take in the goodness of GM FastLane Blog or Jonathan Scwhartz?s Sun Blog.
I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I?m dying are the best I?ve ever had
3 Comments:
Since you mentioned corporate blogs, I was reminded of how I've recently come across Rob Mensching's blog while trying to find a solution to my Office 2003 patching blues. I'm really impressed with the amount of freedom MS gives their developers in publishing to the public. Mensching is pretty frank about some of the faults of his company. Unfortunately, but not surprisingly, his site renders like crap in Firefox.
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