Linkbaiting is dead: Why social media needs to kill the FUD

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I think communicating by swallows carrying items is dead. Unless they are the considerably larger African Swallow, which can carry a coconut.

The problem I have is a simple one - what's a blog for? I see so many of them who are desperately trying to bump up their visibility with various gimmicks, yet it's not obvious what they are going through the effort for.

Do they think they'll somehow make money off of this? Practically no one makes money off of their blog. It's ridiculous. Even the ones that do make money are often vapid at best.

I write my blog because I think I have something to say. I direct traffic to it in hopes of influencing the public debate and making it a bit more intelligent. I hope that someone will see that I am reasonably intelligent and give me a job. So far, no work has come from it, but I at least get my message out.

I can't do that by playing stupid games for temporary blips in the stats. And I can't see how it benefits anyone else, either.

Posted by: wabbitoid   Posted on: 10/23/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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