blogging
Somewhere along our path, the novel concept of "Web 2.0" and mainstream blogging became big business, or rather - the number of people blogging about blogging reached a critical mass.
One can aspire to create blog content and make a fortune in ad-revenue and premium content. In reality though, this will never happen. Why? The signal-to-noise ratio is astronomically low - there are simply too many people talking about nothing.
If you want to try really hard, you'll undoubtedly read the blogs of successful bloggers to get their hot tips about how to make your blog popular. There are so many of these that you won't have any trouble finding them.
Wait, back up a second - successful blogs about making successful blogs? Look at the number of readers hitting these sites compared to that of a site with their own home-grown content.
The truth is, anything worth talking about has nothing to do with you - and will already be covered by a number of specialty sites. If you want to go from rags to riches by creating a successful blog, write about how to be one.
So without further ado, here are my tips for writing a successful blog about writing successful blogs:
- Lie - Your opinions on global warming might not matter much if you're some sixteen year old emo kid, but if you're an environmental biologist, who's going to prove you wrong?
- Cheat - Once you've gotten your site set up, don't wait for it to become popular! Subscribe to a blog spam service and force it down everyone's throats!
- Steal - Have you ever seen a successful person working hard? Neither should your readers - Google for whatever you want to write about and claim it as your own!
So there you go! Take these tips and start your own blog about blogging and being a success about blogging. Don't forget to use keywords. Remember, it's practically impossible to do worse than what's already out there!
So I haven't posted for a while. Things have been far too busy to think about it, and I don't want all my posts on here to be completely self-obsessed rants - I'd like to think I'm better than that. Wait... I just went there, so I guess I'm just as bad as everyone else... :grin:
Also, on the awesome front (Harry Potter spoiler!)... I was so right about the RAB thing in Harry Potter.
So as a few people have noticed, I've removed the placeholder from the front of the website - which has been in place for the last year and a half, sneakily updating itself to say the website will be back within a month. In a whimsical moment of motivation I installed Drupal and ported what little I have of my old content.
Please bear with me (if there is, indeed anyone reading this) as the site gets poked and prodded into something a little more interesting. The general idea of the site is to share anything interesting, usually with a technical bias. Nothing too introverted, I promise.
In the last... while since I've posted - quite a lot has been going on in my life. I've recently left my post at Surgiware and taken on a position at iiNet, a nice big ISP/Telco in the city which, amongst other things means that I'm earning more than a peanuts per year (w00t!).
I've also spent a lot of time rebuilding and rebranding the WALAN events we run locally here every three/four months of every year. Whilst we've fixed a lot of problems and have much better prospects than we did a year or so ago, I notice that we still spend considerably more time managing the organisation than we do actually getting stuff done. Too many chiefs and all that. Either way, there's some big stuff in the works once we finish our current project staffing the LAN Party at the GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo 2007.
