Typical & Boring
It didn’t properly register that there was a comments section on the blog and it didn’t occur to me that anyone would actually want to comment. When it did finally register I had a look.
One in particular stood out:
This site is so typical and boring.
Have a good life.
First of all I’d like to thank the reader for commenting.
You’ve doubled my readership at a stroke - because now I know that someone else apart from me is reading this blog.
Secondly, I’d like to address the comment.
After all it’s what they are for, and if I can improve the blog in any way then I ought to pay attention to reader feedback.
i) “Typical”. What is “typical” in a blog?
If I look at “typical” blogs they seem like they are mostly written by self-obsessed internet marketing wonks, techno geeks revelling in their geekery, and mid-life crisis types trying to convince the world they are still interesting.
Not to mention the much slicker blogs that are all about making money.
They are typical & boring.
Worse than that are the bloggers talking about bloggers talking about bloggers talking about bloggers etc.
The blogsopshere has been described as a “virtuous circle” – but from the outside it looks more like a daisy chain of butt-kissing, trackbacks and link-swapping in an attempt to build search engine prominence.
There is no advertising in this blog. I haven’t taken the opportunity to “monetise my blog”.
That would be typical & boring.
I leave that for my other 10,000 blogs and my army of underpaid and exploited workers back in my Indian “click farm”.
i) “Boring”.
I’m sorry you find this blog boring, I only write about stuff that I find interesting. If you don’t find it interesting then read a different blog I’m sure that there are many more that you prefer much more than this one.
Talking of links - if you have many links to blogs that are as typical & boring as this one then please send them to me.
For one thing I would have more to read and for another I wouldn’t have to write this blog – using RSS I could get someone else to do it for me.
I’d never have to write another blog entry again.
That would be typical & boring.
Finally, I’d like to thank you for your constructive comments on how I can make my blog less typical & boring.
Not.
You could have included suggestions for things to write about, links to blogs that you found less typical & boring than mine, a blog-writers style guide or a list of “10 things you should never do in a blog”, “how not to write a typical & boring blog”, you know the kind of thing.
I mean, come on, not one helpful suggestion - not even a link to Squidoo – how hard would that have been??
I don’t hear any suggestions how to “keep relevant” & “save work” by including huge amounts of RSS feeds into the blog.
If I did that I’d never have to write another blog entry again. Great!! A fully monetised automated blogging machine!!
That would be typical & boring.
Best of all you could have linked to your personal blog – which I am sure is excellent, concise, witty, well-designed and riding high in the Technorati lists – but for some reason you seem to have omitted a link.
I wonder why.
I wonder if your blog is as typical & boring as mine.
Anyway “ape” – I like to say “thanks” once again for all your constructive comments - I’m sure you’re going to have a great life trolling around the Internet.