Hey you! Get off my blog!

January 28, 2007 by  

You can call me stupid, but I’ve decided to ignore all the hype about marketing my blog.  The more its redirected and tagged, the worse the performance.  Its meaningless to me that I’m one of 350,000 instead of one of 30 million. And it annoys me to follow the herd. 

I’ll defy convention and do the opposite – focus on quality, creativity, simplicity and regularly cleaning out the junk (code) that gets inadvertently picked up.  That’s assuming I "can" clean it out.  Its easy to add these automated feed services.  It can be impossible to get rid of the scripts (3 days and counting with 2 tech support services; I won’t mention names..yet) if you have a problem. My lesson learned: if I can’t delete the code, I don’t want it.

Cream rises to the top and I’ll define what that is for me.

Levels of Effort

It takes confidence to market with No (Apparent) Effort. It’s a zen thing, and it’s attractive to many people because of the power it projects. We’re drawn to someone who doesn’t try too hard, who is booked enough to not need a booking. When Miles Davis performed with his back to the audience, some people were offended. Others were entranced by his cool.

(Via Seth’s Blog.)

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