one harder than blogging

as a relatively new blogger, i have to be honest and admit that it’s not always easy to think of interesting things to write about or to write the posts in a way that anyone would find interesting reading.

but after being grilled by the perrors – short for PODCASTING TERRORS (as i’ll affectionately call them from now on), Mike and Dave, i’ve realised that blogging is a cinch compared to podcasting.

with blogging you get to think, write, edit, think, edit some more

when being interviewed on a podcast, you speak

when Vin was interviewed on webmasterradio.fm about a year ago, i remember thinking in the beginning of the interview, he’s taking strain…but after a few minutes he was back to the normal Vin I know – totally confident when speaking on his subject matter.

after the perrors interviewed me tonight on the “controversy” regarding the feedback strategy i tested on Mobile-QandA.com, (i sent out about 40 emails, 10 to bloggers i know, and 30 to unknowns after visiting their sites – about 3 blogged they thought the mails were spam. about 5 tried to copy the strategy!!! (including one of the Perrors)), i’ve got newfound respect for those asking the questions, (as they have questions prepared but the discussion can still go in many directions) BUT ESPECIALLY for those being interviewed live, as the podcasters get to do the editing…

(NOTE TO SELF: need to constantly remember not to take myself too seriously SO recall this still doesn’t come close to being voted SIX worst on a particular singing show last year)

Facebook Anonymous

Facebook is ADDICTIVE

when i started using it earlier tonight i thought it would take 5 minutes. a few hours later, i’ve now gone through a fraction of the functionality, and i’m hooked.

BUT…

I hate the fact that the confirmation letters and numbers often don’t appear when requesting a friend (don’t worry, i didn’t know what that meant a few hours ago), and so you refresh the page to get the letters to show, and they JUST DON’T.

EVEN AFTER REFRESHING A FEW TIMES…

BUT (there’s more)….

luckily when you refresh a few times, it has some sort of glitch (guess it’s bad, but it allowed me to achieve my objective), and the email to the person you want to add gets sent even though you put the code in wrong.

on the surface, facebook is a schoolfriends / students site, but below the surface there is some amazing stuff going on.

any site that allows me to hook up with Alex Tew from MillionDollarHomePage spin genius, and the founders of sites such as linkedin is worth getting involved in…

…and i’m prepared to overlook the small problems facebook has.

UPDATE:

been looking into facebook to find out who founded it etc. fascinating reading. it was started by a harvard college dropout (aren’t all major internet start up’s these days?), Mark Zuckerberg.

don’t know how true these quotes are…

“During one series of talks with Microsoft, Facebook executives told their Microsoft peers they couldn’t do an 8 a.m. conference call because the company’s 22-year-old founder and chief executive, Harvard dropout Mark Zuckerberg, wouldn’t be awake, says a person familiar with the talks. Microsoft executives were incredulous.

and

At one point in the Yahoo negotiations, the talks extended into the weekend, says a person familiar with the matter. Mr. Zuckerberg, this account continues, said he couldn’t take part because his girlfriend was in town. Others pointed out they were closing in on a billion-dollar deal. Mr. Zuckerberg said it didn’t matter: his cellphone would be off, this person says.”

Facebook is rumoured to be in talks with tons of different parties, the latest one being Yahoo for around the $1B mark…

UPDATE: 11/3

I’m on the net a lot, but i’m not quite as bad as this guy…

“Today I received this particular gem from IT.

It has come to our attention that you have been spending a considerable amount of time on a website known as “the Facebook”. This is unacceptable since firm regulations do not permit usage of social networking sites. Moreover, your combined total usage time over the past six months has now exceeded 500 hours (the equivalent of over 4 hours daily), which we feel would normally be sufficiently high to render us duty-bound to inform your manager. As a gesture of goodwill, we will not forward this email on this time, but would ask that you stop utilising this site, and in addition would advise you that this is your final warning, and subsequent offences will be treated with more severity and through the appropriate official channels.

It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisedly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing Facebook ever could.”