Comments on: You’re Missing the Bandwagon

By: Joel McLaughlin

Joel McLaughlin — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:54:21 +0000

Yes, this is a great post. In my opinion – some times less is more. I find it hard to get involved enough with day to day activities, but there are definitely ways to streamline what you consume.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:40:33 +0000

In reply to Lindsay McIntyre.

[nods] You’re so right.

Without consistent content and consistent interaction, the Internet will forget you in the blink of an “I click”

By: Lindsay McIntyre

Lindsay McIntyre — Wed, 27 May 2009 19:08:00 +0000

I rarely have time to read newspapers these days.. Online news seems to be the easiest form of doing it for me – I flick when I have time. I think content consistency is so important, but I think that interaction is also important. If people comment on your blog and you don’t take any notice, soon they’ll stop commenting and possibly stop reading.. you don’t want that! If you want people to love coming to and reading your blog, it’s important to give something back – like you do 🙂

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:13:43 +0000

In reply to Josh.

Publication is not “passe”; it’s the place of “contact” with that publication and its consumption that’s the problem.

Recent data (Nielsen’s, for example) shows that while people spend more time online, they browse less. More contact with less sites.

Sites which receive a lot of attention are social networking ones; it is here that people share information, content, links. It’s there that one should be found.

In other words; browsing as a discovery engine is getting less popular, RSS never has caught on with the big public, but social networking (THE new discovery engine) did — how could one consciously opt NOT to be there?

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:44:22 +0000

I think I missed the point on this. I can’t see the problem with publication as being “passe”. It’s more the problem of content and consistency, isn’t it?

I re-read what you posted here, it feels like you’re saying that blogging and individual publications similar to that will phase out in favor of social media, did I get that right?

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:53:59 +0000

In reply to Data Entry Service.

It’s a lot like “back then” with blogs when we also wondering “well for crying out loud, who is going to listen to me ramble on about my cat?!” — and then we realized we don’t need to talk about our cats; we can post about consumer products, give tips, share a private look into how we do stuff in our own lives.

The same holds true for Twitter (or Facebook… or FriendFeed…. or MySpace… or….)

By: Data Entry Service

Data Entry Service — Tue, 26 May 2009 11:25:40 +0000

It’s that short attention span! Too many hours playing games and immediate fulfillment thing. We all like to get to the meat of what we read but I don’t get the twitter thing.

By: Cool Gifts

Cool Gifts — Tue, 26 May 2009 05:48:34 +0000

I agree Ruud. So many people have the mindset that if you build it they will come. I don’t believe that really applies to social media. You have to give them a reason to come and a reason to keep coming back. Setting it and forgetting it is a no-go.

By: Ruud Hein

Ruud Hein — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:32:56 +0000

In reply to Barry Welford.

The title if it’s a static stream, like a feed reader. Snippets, statements, facts from the post if it’s dynamic, like Twitter.

And you can’t *push* this stuff either. It’s like blogging; either it’s genuine or you lose out with page filler.

You can’t “join Facebook, then publish all post links”

By: Barry Welford

Barry Welford — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:13:34 +0000

Right on, Ruud. It’s happening to us all. More than ever it’s the title that’s got to get their attention, even if they know and like you. .. and it may well be the retweet version that counts.