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oh no, another one!

washwords — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:45:14 -0500

washy || http://washwords.wordpress.com || washwords.dc@gmail.com

Hi there.. interesting post and new development. I find I am sooo overwhelmed by all the media options / social networking sites out there. eek.

I probably WON'T add this to my blog, for a few reasons, namely

1) While I loved a lot about blogging through google (blogger), when you get advanced and use their draft blogger system and have ANY issue, whether your fault or theirs, you can easily get blogged out for life! my site went "down" and while you are given an error code there's NO person to send said code to, or easy way to find help. That's why I switched to wordpress, which I like MUCH better, except

2) that certain super cool features (like google analytics) and I'm betting this new "friend" thingy don't work on wordpress. Similarly I find google reader about the most cumbersome tricky thing to read regularly and follow. I get sooo overwhelmed by it and it seems like it could/should be easy (what happened to bulletin board threads? that worked great!) .

3) I like to be (relatively) anonymous on my blog, so I don't want to confuse this with my "real" gmail account which is waaaay too easy to do on google.

Don't get me wrong. I love google for lots of things and I HEAR google analytics is great. For me right now though, it's a non-entity.

P.S. Facebook is adding something this week that will let you link your "friends" from other sites (like twitter, myspace, etc etc.) - eek...

washy || http://washwords.wordpress.com || washwords.dc@gmail.com

If you're more interested

Virginia DeBolt — Tue, 13 May 2008 12:05:44 -0500

in contributing good content than in fame and fortune, then adding social networking features to a site might not be anything that would help you with your mission. Good point.

http://www.webteacher.ws/ http://first50.wordpress.com/

I'm a slow adopter

Vered — Tue, 13 May 2008 11:55:12 -0500

So I won't pass any judgment on this, but will wait and see what others are doing, then act accordingly.

It sometimes seems to me that more time is spent on figuring out how to
make money from interaction on line, than on discovering better ways
to interact!

I completely agree. In blogs too, the issue of posting valuable content vs. blogging "for fame and fortune", as Jenn so eloquently put it, is giving me a headache and a split blogging personality.

Vered DeLeeuw
www.momgrind.com

Thanks for pointing out the connection

Virginia DeBolt — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:09:07 -0500

between the "free" services and content we get that are powered by ad money. You know, we've been getting free TV and free radio that way for so long, we sometimes forget that the cost of it has to come from somewhere.

http://www.webteacher.ws/ http://first50.wordpress.com/

No such thing as a free lunch...

mashadutoit — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:49:21 -0500

Thanks for this post!

I've been following that conversation on Myspace and Facebook - I cant remember if I got this link from you! I've just discovered your blog posts on technology, always fascinating.

This is an interesting new development. It sometimes seems to me that more time is spent on figuring out how to make money from interaction on lline, than on discovering better ways to interact!