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December 3, 2006
I wrote a post on Workplace’s blog last week that seems to have pissed off a rather well-read professional tech blogger. Well, I’m not sure if “pissed off” is the right term, but he wrote a retaliatory response that basically lines out my entry, argues various points, and explains why I am both WRONG and also probably mentally impaired.
At first I was embarrassed by the attention the subject was getting, then I was secretly thrilled by the blog posts and comments that supported me, then I was sort of pouty over the blog posts and comments that disagreed with me, and then I felt really bad when I read someone’s blog who said my writing style was annoying and that they could barely stand to read it (because my tender little feelings are fragile like a Lladro figurine, perhaps one depicting puppies or a winged child). Then I remembered that I have a life and made myself Step Away from the Computer For the Love of Criminy.
While I was worrying about whether or not I’d made Workplace look bad, I checked our web stats and saw that in just the day or so since this blogger’s post, he’d tripled our weekly average of traffic. I mean, shitloads of people are coming to the Workplace blog because of this guy. He’s generated more interest in Workplace with one click of the Publish button than I could have engineered with a 5-digit ad budget and a zany puppet mascot.
(I should probably send him some flowers, or something.)
I think there’s a lot of truth in the saying that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. From a certain perspective, anyway. It also occurred to me, not for the first time, that blog posts intended to point out something we disagree with – or are offended by – result in more people being exposed to that very thing, and it’s almost always true that more visitors (even if they’re waving flaming torches) are usually better than no visitors, especially if the offender is being paid by advertisers.
I should have put BlogAds all over that fucking stingray post, is what I’m saying.
Anyway! I have (yet another) video to share, because that’s the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it. Behold:
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December 1, 2006
It’s probably kind of awful to make a video of your child for the express purpose of poking fun at him, right?
In that case, here is a clip I found…uh, somewhere online. Yeah, just surfing around and stuff. I have no idea who the whimpery toddler is or why his parents mock his pain.
(Music: Conway Twitty, “Lonely Blue Boy”, for which I am grateful to Rob – he included this song on his 2003 JournalCon CD, and I thought of it the minute I started putting together these clips. I mean, um, I bet the godless heathen that made this cruel video did.)
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P.S. Did anyone watch Survivor last night, and hear Jeff say, “420 is the magic number”? Dude! Probst, he does not sniff the coke he only smokes the sensimilla.
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