Rick’s down in Atlanta for the week chillin’ with borg. I received a very cryptic email from Dell thanking me for attending the conference. After a little deducing I figured out that I was just CC’ed on the email. Nonetheless, I was CC’ed on a thank you to Rico for coming to their booth with this picture attached:
I am completely astounded by the new breed of web logging freaks out on the ‘net these days. Back in 1994 we weren’t “blogging.” We were simply creating websites. Or webzines as they were labeled. But today with the advent of www.blogger.com journalling websites are now called “Blogs.” Blogger got it’s name from a twisted version of the buzzword “weblog” which, if you ask me, is another stupid name for a simple website. I don’t get why people feel the need to categorize themselves. But enough about the simple website name. I’ve got a bigger beef.
Kids, yes I’m going to call them kids, seem to think that by having a weblog site they can turn a profit. Obviously living in some insane demented reality they fail to understand that web marketing has gone in the toilet over the past 2 years. So, what do these children now do instead of running banner ads on their site? They beg for people to buy them things off their Amazon.com wishlist. Never used the Amazon wishlist? Just go to Amazon.com, sign up for an account, cruise through their site and instead of buying items click “Add to my Wishlist.” It’s a nice feature for people like me who like to keep lists of things they wish to buy. It also works nicely for holiday wish lists and probably nice for a wedding registry. But the new breed of webloggers feel they are owed something. By voluntarily opening up themselves to others visitors should buy them something. I can’t remember the last time I was paid for writing down notes on a piece of paper.
