I’ve noticed lately as I’ve been visiting sites on my RSS feed… rather than just the feed itself that there has been a shift in the way many bloggers get they’re “stuff” out on the ‘Net. All this social networking and tagging… is totally making me dizzy.

We’ve got places like Technorati, Digg, MySpace, Bumpzee, MyBlogLog, blah, blah, blah rolling across the Internet at the speed of light. I was honestly sitting here wondering if I’ve missed the train. Wondering if my site will be left in the Internet dust because I don’t have 53 little icons stuck to the bottom of my posts where you can dig, feed, grow… or whatever to get traffic to this site. Seriously feeling a little anxious there…

Have I missed the craze of networking? of digging? of spattering my content all over the place so that I can get a piece of the traffic? Oh I think I have… not to say that I couldn’t pick up my socks and get my ass in gear and change that by adding those nifty things to my site. But right here, right now… I don’t damn well want too.

I love people who come here and chat in the comments. Lurvvve you! I love new commenters, I love the interaction. So why am I so stubborn to adding more to this site to get more people here to share the comment love… to offer ideas, to share my ideas… why am I so irked by it all.

A while a go… well, a long while ago I thought about joining an online community of bloggers. You know the ones that were out there like 9rules and other names that escape me at the moment. They were all the rage… and now I don’t hear so much about them. Now it’s on to something else. But at the time I really wanted to be apart of something. Now… not so much. I’m rolling on the whole - “Love me stick around… Hate me… move on, nothing to see here”. I’m all for getting my blog out there, but at the same time I don’t want people to feel forced to love me - to be apart of it. It’s just weird to me right now. I want people to link here because they want to - not because it’s apart of some script.

… and with that currently rolling around in my head - that leaves me thinking that I will never be “that” popular. I will never be quoted by the “big boys and girls” of my niche. I’ll never be a Rockstar. LOL. Not to say that I won’t ever change my mind and get sucked into the whole popular social scene - or tryout this damn software.

I’m just being anti-establishment…

I’m curious about what you think of this sort of thing - love it? hate it? unsure?

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Over at iMedia Connection, Sean X Cummings calls bull$#@! on Viral Marketing. He’s got a pretty good article on targeting technical influences and social network advertising… thought it might be of interest.

I call bull$#@! on viral marketing programs, targeting technical influencers and social network advertising. Why? Because they are fraught with marketing spin and only add to a confusing and ever-expanding marketing landscape. I can almost picture people doing silent finger “quotes” when they say these three terms.

Of course I love the end of his article:

Whatever it is, we have ended up with a plethora of options, a lot of confusion and people everywhere spouting the marketing buzzwords “viral,” “technical influencers” and “social network” like they were sugarshots at a diabetic convention.

… sorry I couldn’t help but chuckle.  Read the article
(found this gem at MinJungKim.com)

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