1. I don’t consider myself an A-Lister.
No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway. Uh-huh.
2. I don’t care about traffic.
Of course I don’t. Even though I’m a freelance consultant, and my blog is my primary way of marketing myself. Rock on.
3. I’ve read your blog.
Yeah, well I read the “Musings of an unemployed tech consultant” bit on the title bar, before clicking off. That counts.
4. I started blogging back in 1999.
Of course, back in 1999 a Flash-animated, brochureware homepage was considered a blog. Kinda sorta.
5. My blog has no commercial agenda.
I’m far too sexy to care about money. Exactly.
6. I only have advertising on my blog as an experiment.
That explains why the adstrip is right under the “Musings of an unemployed tech consultant” bit. Indeed.
7. I’ve never liked the unegalitarian term, “A-Lister”.
Even though I am one. Oh, the irony.
8. I’m proud to be a D-Lister.
Even though I spend 7 hours a day writing the thing. Right.
9. He’s a big hero of mine.
He’s got more traffic than downtown Mexico City and I’m hoping to God he links to me one day.
10. I really admire what she’s doing for the blogosphere.
I’ve noticed that she’s currently single.
[Inspired by Mr. Kawasaki, of course.]
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Link to me dammit. I’ll buy a suit, promise.
Nicely done 🙂
>> He’s got more traffic than downtown Mexico City and I’m hoping to God he links to me one day.
lol !
Honesty is the best policy. Rock on.
#2 – I only care about the kind of traffic that comes back (all 2 of them, including me. But my dog doesn’t count as he’s myopic but maybe that could be a 50% traffic uplift…??)
#3 – I’ve got the attention span of a goldfish and the brain to match so you’ve got about a nanosecond to impress me (the remainder of my life is spent on spell check…often unsucessfully)
#5 – anyone who says that (let’s fair…outside the folks who genuinely only want to record their lives for family and friends) needs to take the Pinocchio test
#8 – D as in dunder heid?
#10 – so you think my blog is a replacement for AFF? In your (occasionally wet) dreams
isn’t it all apart of the “sharing” thing, that you’re honestly just blogging to “share knowledge and insights” and your hoping to become an a-list ?
I think hierarchy are in all layers of society.
I couldn’t help but thinking that the latest article about Jason Calacanis – made him look like any rock star , any model.
does people see blogging as an easy way to reach the stars ?
hell Im blogging as a part of my carrier..
Im at the conferences for the network…
i do geekdinners for the community and the appraisal of me as a person..
I think it’s cool when I meet somebody who I had no idea had such a big impact on other people..
but I like the way I can choose to display myself with my blog… whatever the cause or reason..
see you at lift’06
Maybe we should have a wiki page for anyone that falls under point #10 ….
Barry, and if those single women tag themselves correctly, they will pop up on your rss subscription of your kind of women? 😉
Henriette: is it really a choice which parts you show or isn’t it more what you don’t show?
Point 10: Now I know why you and Scoble were hanging out with the french model blogger at Les blogs. And you said it was the size of her posts that you admired 😉
If women tag themselves correctly it would be a reversal of female habits when dating.
What, bitter, me?
Hey, I don’t have a commercial agenda. Right now, I’m a graduate student. I guess I have some hope that by blogging now, I’ll be more recognizable when I go to get a job.
Maybe that *is* a commercial agenda. Hmm.
No advertisements for me though. It’s not because I’m too sexy or anything. I just hate them.
I run a podcast site called ‘Soap Detectives’ for fun and giggles, podcasting 1950’s radio dramas. When I first started I had the usual google ads on site, to help pay for traffic – I have about 600 daily listeners so bandwidth is a concern.
I hated what the ads did to the site. It looked disjointed and just plain ugly. So I removed them and am now asking for listener donations instead. And guess what, donations are outperforming ad revenue by about five to one. No riches are being made, but the bandwidth bill is being paid for which is all I am after.
Re: #8.
I don’t spent 7 hours a day blogging. Well, almost…
🙂
Hey Hugh – yours is one of the few blogs I keep coming back to. Switched from lurking to doing – and we’re doing a small group blog from Tajikistan, one of the poorest countries in the world.
I’d be intrigued to hear what you thought of this entry –
http://nightingalesangatwcc.typepad.com/tajikistan/2006/01/chained_to_pove.html
A challenge – could you come up with a cartoon that spoke to that article?
Haha, I actually /did/ start blogging in 1999 and have the archive.org archives to prove it! Admittedly it wasn’t called blogging then, and it was all a bit juvenile, but it was a blog by modern standards darn it 😉
much mirth.
11. I haven’t blogged much lately, but will post more very soon.
I have discovered that reading blogs is much easier than writing them.
🙂
I resent this expose on my personal style and the only way you can make up for it is to link to me three times today. While I won’t buy any suits from you, I will rent that sweatshirt you were wearing at Les Blogs.
Hugh:
The question is. . . Do you get PAID to speak at those conferences?
There is not a blogger out there who doesn’t care about traffic. Whether they are willing to admit it or not is another question.
I started blogging back in 1999… wait, actually it was 1997…
Of course I’m strictly D-List material. 🙂
So… all this time, you knew?
;D
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Hey Shel – you must have some intimate knowledge about Hugh’s bathing habits that is hidden from the rest of use…do tell the secret.
And then I had another nanosecond thought…Hugh blogging in a deckchair out in the snow in his Tom McM smoking jacket, Bermudas, the ensemble completed with H having a fag hanging out the side of his mouth, a ready chilled Stormhoek to hand and a quiet chortle at these asinine comments.
The mind boggles! But I guess HM readers and lurkers should at least have the decency to pass the compliment back with appropriate shovel fulls of erudition (or what passes for it.)
Cool, I only scored 4 out of 10.
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Top 10 Blogger Lies
Seems everyone is in the mode of creating top 10 lie list at the moment this one is pretty funny. [GapingVoid]…
Man, I’m totally feeling you on number 9. If only because I’ve been blogging for the same five people for the last year.
Hugh:
How about this one —
11. I love that blogging turns the distribution of information into a conversation. (Now, how do I get all these jackass losers to stop emailing me? I’m an A-lister!)
Scott
Negative blogging energy buildup
I don’t normally post about blogging because posting about blogging is better left to the professionals, whoever/wherever they may be. (To me, generating a lot of income from the ads on your blog does not make you a professional anything.)
I wonder what the top 10 is for the internet, period. Lying on the internet, no matter what the venue (be it blogosphere, or other forums) seems to be pretty consistent,
For as long as I’ve been online…
Since back in 1927…
😉
The minute fictional professional wrestling becomes a hit in the blogosphere, let me know.
I can’t even keep my LJ updated daily, so I probably don’t count too much. But at least I know it.
#11. “Who reads top ten lists?”
#12. “I’m just a geek.” (Or “I’m not a geek,” as the case may be.)
#13. “Subscribed!”
A tree not seen for the forest:
Yelling upstairs “No honey, I’m not blogging right now.”
or “No honey, I’m not reading blogs right now.”
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The Top Ten Lies Of Business Gurus!!!!
1. I’m successful because I’m brilliant. Never mind that I sold a money-losing piece of crap to a dot-com at the height of the internet madness. You should listen to me for my brilliant insights.
2. I’m not
This is funny :). However, I do care about traffic simply because lately it has been abused (alot) by spambot/spamlink. Kinda eaten away my bandwith…
my blog is on hiatus. really, it’s not dead. i swear.
Top 10 blog lies
How many have you told?
gapingvoid has a funny list of the Top 10 Blogger Lies, but just as funny are the many comments.
Lies include:
I don’t care about traffic.
Of course I don’t. Even though I’m a freelance consultant, and my …
You are my hero 😉
Nice post btw.
I’ve read your blog.
I really have. I swear 😉
But great post.
Did anybody read this?
Didn’t think so. 😉
Wow, there are alot of comments.
Sheesh! It’s not like I’m not sitting here in bed all day reading these mind##@@$g blogs. I otta get outta here and get a life. This blog was worth it, though…
Top ten blogger lies
1. I don’t consider myself an A-Lister.
No, but I turn up for speaking gigs at all the big conferences anyway. Uh-huh.
2. I don’t care about traffic.
Of course I don’t. Even though I’m a freelance consultant, and my blog is m…
Blogging is something other people have the time to do (and read.)
My blog game is to see if she can form coherent sentences and if she’s hot and single…
You forgot one:
(11) I don’t blog from work. I only spellcheck the posts that I wrote in the morning before I came in.
I’m a single female and I do nothing for the blog-world, other than to give informative posts of how sad and pathetic my life really is, and to let some of you out there know-we may be the only intelligent lifeforms around. I have no commercial agenda-I couldn’t give away a cardboard box to a bum. I basically blog so years from now when I’m in an old-folks home they can read what I posted at 32 and realize I was always nuts.
#11 – I’m supporting Scoble in his defence of the China Syndrome because he needs it(yeah – and we’ve got a book to sell as well)
by doing this i moved from d to z lister
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Here’s what I posted at Guy “ship shoddy” K’s “blog”:
Here’s a lie for you:
“Ship shoddy, but ship first”
aka
“Don’t worry, be crappy”
That’s consumer fraud, you charalatan loser.
Thank god we have blogs now! Now everyone can see what people have been posting on message boards/ usenet/BBS for 30 years. Oh what a remarkable shift in the paradigm. Finally a system that distributes information and what people think.
Top 10 Blogger Lies
Some are a bit tech related but I think in general it applies to a lot of us:
Top 10 Blogger Lies
2. I don’t care about traffic.
Of course I don’t. Even though I’m a freelance consultant, and my blog is my primary way of marketing…
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Steven Streight:
Please be nice. Thank you.
The Top Ten Blogger Lies
Here at Bare Feet, we're very bullish on blogging (um, some might even say annoying). We know that's it's a great tool for business development as well as personal growth. It enables us (and you) to get to know the people …
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Si por eso la sala tiene espejos – porque a veces se v
How True. I’d link to my blog but I had to take it down because the traffic was crashing the server. 😉
How true! 🙂
HOOOCHIEEEEEEEMAMMAMAMAMAMAMAMAMMMAMAMMA
NUNANUNANANNANANANNANA!@1!!!!!!!!
HAAAAAIENNNNNNNNN HAAIIEEEEEEEENNN HAIEEEEEEEEEEN
This = unfunny. Good try though, champ. Try not to suck so hard next time.
What’s “traffic”?
You’ve been instalaunched! Which would make some bloggers buy all their buds a round of drinks. But you don’t care about mundane stuff about a link from the blogfaddah, huh?
I don’t care about my traffic. I don’t even check it, much less obsess about arbitrary milestones:
http://theargumentclinic.blogspot.com/2006/01/10000-visitors-woohoo.html
Re: #4 – What’s wrong with that? Personally, I’ve been making fun of morons on my blog since 1942.
Come to my site. I’m all about the money and I have only been blogging two weeks.
I spend eight hours a day so no one will visit.
Thus, I do it anyway because it pleases me. Am I self-promoting, sure. Why not? No one else is going to sing my praises but me.
No ads today. We will see if I want them tomorrow. I can change my mind.
Truth be told, in 1999 I was still doing Usenet, and under a different nickname.
Well, my blogger archives only go back to Jan 2000, but I was using another platform before that. Honest.
Cool site, I actually looked at the main page. You’re onto something with the graphics. I esp. like the cartoons. I’m surprised more blogs don’t exploit the one pic is worth 1000 words lever.
#11 Keep telling yourself the blog experience enhances the day-job bottom line.
My top 5 lies:
1. Cool blog…
I haven’t actually read your cool blog, I am here promoting mine…
2. My blog is NSW
That always attracts traffic, and it might actually be true… I could be from New South Wales…
3. Let’s find as many ways to link to my blog as humanlyhumanly…
Thank God for cut-and paste…
4. My blog really is NSW, but I won’t tell them…
It’s always fun imagining people at work, clicking furiously to get rid of pop-ups as their boss is passing by…
5. I am a girl and I am naked…
That always works…
Hitchikers guide to blogging
I tried blogging because I thought I had something to say. At the end of my first week of blogging I’d learned, to my chagrin, that I had little left to say (that is, I’d found my self to be too shallow a well) and that others had already said it more fulsomely and better.
Now I can admire the fortitude of the established blogger and empathize with the less visited ones. (now, lwt me re-trace the links that got me to this obscure place…ta! )
Hugh,
Thanks for the link! I love your lies! Can you send me an email? I’d like to ask you something.
Thanks,
Guy
Best blog post ever
Jeneane Sessum writes “The Top Ten Lies of Blogging Consultants.” Excellent list. Hugh MacLeod has
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The Exclusive Interweb
Hugh MacLeod is on a tear about blogging. Creating one punchy top ten list after another, and now the two immutable laws of blogging. A return to discussion of blogging for blogging’s stake, since he’s been away attending to suits and wine….
Every blogger should read this, thanks for posting it.
I’ve read your blog and I find it great – head on over to our blog at http://www.touchstonegadget.com/blog for fun!
Haha just kidding – I love the post – I have linked to your post as well (in the hope, of course, of getting more traffic from your blog!)
I didn’t bother to read these.
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