Internet: Serious Business

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Scott Jennings| 14 Comments

NY Times: Blogging Will Kill You

“I was a corporate lawyer and an entrepreneur, and I know about working all the time. But now, you’re always worried a big story is breaking in your e-mail, and if you wait an hour, you’ll miss it. Every morning when I wake up, the panic hits and I have to see my e-mail as soon as possible.”

Clearly I am far too slack a blogger. I pretty much never wake up with panic attacks about this blog, ever.

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  • http://www.eatasackofcrap.com VonKeebler

    In your case, the panic attacks shouldn’t come from missing breaking stories but instead their subject.

    BREAKING NEWS:
    Second Life – 11:34 PM
    Resident Abraham Lincoln Screws a Flaming Couch During Oracle Press Conference

  • http://www.plaguelands.com krones

    Until I leak some alpha screen shots from your MMOG!

  • Metzger

    I think you wake up with panic attacks about how the blog looks and how best to redesign it.

  • Lucas

    …But this latest website re-design has “panic” written all over it, though ;)

  • Soulflame

    I fear change!
    :(

  • http://beafraid.com hellfire

    I reloaded the page twice to make sure my browser hadn’t been hijacked!

  • Marlowe

    Ugliest blog sex-change evarrr.

  • http://www.crscott.net C R Scott

    The only time I felt that way was when I played Travian. :)

  • http://socialistgamerreview.com Jeremy Williams

    For a moment I thought it was going to be a post about the blog I occasionally read by that name.. o:
    In other news, your blog became ugly.

  • Ironwood

    I like it.

  • Spaz

    I like this design except for the fact that, like all the previous designs, it still has too much bullshit on the sides.

    IMPROVEMENT.

  • Neep

    I kinda like the new design. Looks very… official? Although the spartan look of the last few earlier ones was kinda cool too.

    Anyway, who cares what I think?

  • http://bdadv.blogspot.com Bonedead

    I like the new design but I’d come here if it was covered in poo and I could smell it through my speakers.

    The internet is indeed, super serious business.

  • Roc

    ‘Breaking’ a story is ridiculously over-rated.
    Quality and Insight builds a readership. Being ‘first’ gets you a pile of Digg hits that will never come back. Better to hold the attention of a solid audience than kill yourself trying to score enough big hits to survive the lean times.