Happy and Blue 2

Over the weekend I had an unannounced visit from family. The visit lasted 3 days in total.

I’m glad they came. It was fun to see them. Hope they return again soon.

But, and there always seems to be a “but”, whenever something like this happens it throws my routine off.

And yes, I do have a routine like everyone else. Except that one guy in Asia who is kind of a rebel. And that one girl in Poland who refuses to follow any routine. And a few others who I don’t know who also don’t follow any routine.

My routine, where blogging is concerned, involves getting up early in the morning, writing a post and posting it, reading and commenting on other blogs and checking my email and maybe responding to it.

The whole process only takes about 3 hours. I’m pretty organized. Well, I’m consistent anyways.

Of course the visit ruined my routine. As visits often do.

Each day I would be half way through writing my post when someone would pop in to visit.

And each day I would visit and spend little bits of time finishing my post before being interrupted again.

I don’t remember visiting other blogs. And I like that part of my routine the most.

There is no way to avoid surprises like this visit. I wouldn’t want there to be anyways.

But, it made me think that getting some posts done up ahead of time really would be a smart move.

And I wondered:
How do you deal with changes to your routine? Do you have an alternate plan in place? Do you just take things as they come? Do you throw a tantrum?
What do you do when your routine is changed?

The current business model for blogging is collapsing. Again..

When business blogging began it was with pay per click. The object was to leverage your readers to make money by steering them to click on ads on your site. For that click you would get a small amount of money.

This system worked well for the initial popular sites but as more and more people started doing the same thing the system collapsed. There are still people using this business model successfully but they are few and far between.

The next wave in business blogging was producing and selling ebooks (information products). (more…)

Comments are the lifeblood of our blogs.

We want to receive comments on what we have written.
To know that others have read what we have toiled to create.
To spark discussion on a topic we are interested in. To gain further insight and ideas that will help us all grow.
To obtain important links from others so we can return to their sites, read what they are thinking about, comment and get to know them better.
To begin building a relationship with others.

This is really the primary reason we blog. To meet and interact with like minded people. (more…)

I just started reading Beyond Blogging. I realize it’s been out for a while now but I was hoping I could just download it for free off a bit torrent site. That never happened so I paid for it. As should everyone. And no, I’m not going to share my copy for free either.

This book is amazing. Mike and Nathan did an excellent job with creating the book.
If you haven’t already read it I’d highly recommend it. And I don’t even have an affiliate link thingy on my site so I’m not making anything out of steering you to the product. (more…)

As a Canadian I’m used to people being nice. We say “sorry” when the other person bumps into us. We let people cut in front of us in line without saying anything. Well not verbally anyways. We tend to give them our best being cross look. But we yield.

Canadians are nice.

But, when is being nice just annoying?

Being nice is annoying when we don’t mean it.

We really aren’t “sorry” when someone bumps into us in a mall or on the street. They make us mad. (more…)

Yesterday I read a post on Site Sketch 101 about a joint venture by Nicholas Cardot and Jordan Cooper.
They are offering a rather unique site consultation service which should appeal to a number of bloggers.

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There are 3 packages distinguished mainly by price and time beginning at $55 for a 30 minute consult and ending with a $235 package for 180 minutes. (more…)

This video is the second one in response to a video by Jordan Cooper on the social groups within the Third Tribe forum.
In his video he talks of the need for class separation within the forum as being a necessary “evil” to gain the most benefit from the forum.

While I agree with his observations I also think the same thing is occurring within blogging in general.
As such I question the need to join a forum to gain knowledge.
It is my opinion that the knowledge can be better gained through contact with people within your social structure that blog. You just need to ask via email, twitter, comments, etc.

I am not a member of the Third Tribe.
Jordan is.

I am certainly not against anyone who is a member or who would like to join. If you see a benefit to belonging to a forum then do it.
I don’t but I have opinions about lots of things I don’t take part in.

Jordan’s video series is interesting to me because it delves into social structure. Not just the social structure of the Third Tribe forum but on social structure in general.

I would recommend the series to anyone whether they are interested in gaining an insiders view of the Third Tribe or whether they are just interested in social issues we face in our blog and day to day lives.

What are your views on the social class system as it applies to blogging and real life?