06.06.07
The Dog-Eat-Dog World of Blogging
So, as it turns out, my post about programmer classification wasn’t as nearly well received as my other posts. Even though it was front-paged on DZone, it received more negative votes than positive votes. And most comments about it were talking about how incomplete it was. One guy even went out of his way to make a blog post about how un-funny it actually was! Though, in my opinion, his attempt to redo failed even worse than the original. My post was at least trying to be light-hearted and funny; his post was way too harsh. Combined with an extremely basic grasp of English, the humor of the post was completely lost on me:
“It’s hard to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys, but it’s also difficult to soar gracefully at all when you’re chained by the neck to a Lear jet doing mach 4.”
What?
Anyhow, it turns out that if people are actually going to read this stuff, I’m going to have to limit my time investing in trampoline stocks and really put 110% of my efforts into writing these posts. Even though I’ve made a KILLING after they released the new 5′ x 10′ “Super Tramps”, I’m just going to have to become totally quality driven. I want to ramp up the interactivity of these posts, become more scalable, flexible, and client-centered. I think if maybe I were a little more adaptive, I could reach all the low-hanging fruit and really get on the bleeding edge of blog awesomeness.
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Tecro said,
June 7, 2007 at 6:04 pm
At least Rea Maor’s post directed me to your blog…
I think I understand what he meant by the turkey and Learjet thing. Turkeys are your average, dumb coworkers who won’t let you do well. The Learjet is like the “Ninja” who works at a pace too fast for you.
gatormha said,
June 8, 2007 at 12:59 pm
You’re right. Even bad publicity is still publicity. I was just amazed that someone would take such offense to a silly blog post. I mean, he seemed truly angry about it all. Oh well. As far as his sense of humor goes, I’m more in the “don’t think about it too hard” school of thought. If it isn’t clear what the punch line is in a couple of seconds, don’t write it. I think I’m going to put Rea on my blogroll….
Thanks for reading!
jimbojw said,
July 5, 2007 at 1:24 am
Hi Matt,
Yeah - bloggin is tough business. Good luck! dZone and tweako are your friends
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