Are You “In” Or Just Deleted For 2009

As I spend all day setting up my new Blackberry (ver ver ver sexy bit of kit!) and I’ve been having a little purge of blogs I subscribe to via RSS I thought I would share why some are “in” and some are “out” for 2009.

This follows my very public purge and reporting of, via Twitter, of my unsubscribing of certain ezines…… now that was fun!

I’m on a mission to follow only those blogs who add value.  Difficult to quantify but I’m a big blog follower – have been for about 3 years – and I think I can trust my instincts now.

Very truly OUT are….

1.   all those (including those of my family!) where they can’t be arsed to post to their blog within the last two weeks (this criteria would have been the last week but it IS Christmas/New Year), as I bloody well give up if they don’t get it yet about blogging.

2.  where every post is a video with no intro beyond the title – what’s gonna make me watch it?

3.  where it’s all sell, sell, sell particularly of other people’s stuff,  and no personal insight and thoughts at all.

4.  anyone who talks about god without qualifying it at all to cater for all tastes (i.e. or the universe or whatever YOU believe in) although I am becoming strangely hooked on Rev Run’s show on MTV which my 13 year old is watching compulsively and is absolutely hilarious.  We have found a common bond in music and very rich people’s property a la  MTV’s Cribs over the Xmas hols……..best interior design taste award so far goes to Pamela Anderson FYI.  Go figure.

Rev Run’s into hip-hop and god, not two of my favourite things in the whole wide world as god=organised religion in my book and hip hop just gets on my nerves after a while.    Still…..it’s a very cool show AND a loveable family.  Almost as good as Shazzer and co, and I didn’t like rock music either.  The Rev’s two older daughters are very smart, funny and quick (aka Phoebe) and the middle son reminds me of Nelson a lot.  Jo-Jo is a techie geek who’s cool and the dog makes me laugh.  As does the baby.

Do they have a blog I wonder?  Must have………

I’m off to find it.  I’ll come back to this rant later.

Trials Of An ADD Internet Marketeer

Life as an internet marketer never runs smooth and this week I tried to send out a video postcard about Alan’s workshop.  Now, while I can see it fine in the “postcard creator” software, on the blog, on YouTube, etc, you can never predict  what will happen online and lo and behold, it didnt’ seem to work.  Well not for two days anyway – it’s working fine now!

One of the lessons to learn and I have learned it.  Do your best, tell everyone what is happening, and try anyway!  Better to be out there than perfect eh?

You can view said video in it’s original form here
http://videopostcard-004.com/X.asp?5803994X1920

Or on the blog here
http://themoneygym.com/blog/2008/04/09/alan-forrest-smith-join-us/

Or on YouTube here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPItSew7d44

Bit of a story around this video postcard….in addition to the fact I now have to ring the USA at lunchtime to see what’s gone wrong and why it’s now working but it wasn’t when I sent it out grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr….

You may enjoy a behind the scenes look at the challenges one faces as an ADD internet entrepreneur?  Read on and enjoy!

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