Comments on: Bes Z’s 5 signs you spend too much time online in 2007

By: Bes

Bes — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:38:15 +0000

[sorry for the delay in responding everyone, and thanks for waiting!]

CCNA, heh thanks. Would you like to add any other points? [Check out Valerie's comment below too please]

Valerie, interesting point. Do you think all of such names are used only for increasing the PR value of a site?

By: valerie

valerie — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:19:26 +0000

Reason #6: you leave comments on blogs for only PageRank bait with no real name or even a screen name, just something like CCNA, Cadmium Plating, Credit Card Services, etc.

By: CCNA

CCNA — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:12:57 +0000

Too true, too true.

By: Bes

Bes — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 03:42:41 +0000

Dan, thanks for the reply. Maybe we can all start one called ROAG “Recovering Online Addicts Group“, pronounced like rogue.

What do you think?

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 22:18:38 +0000

I need to join this group too. SwollenPickles, did you start one?

By: Bes

Bes — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:26:52 +0000

Valerie, sorry if I sounded confusing: I meant going from bye [offline] to ttyl [online].

That is very interesting, knowing how one may have found your sites online. Does that prompt you to connect your personal site and pictures more to allow more people to find you, hide them more, or no difference?

By: valerie

valerie — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:47:48 +0000

Wait… saying “bye” is online language to you? We’ve said that here for all my life, before the internet was ever around haha.

Also, he would have found my history website for the county first, and then who knows where he went from there…

By: Bes

Bes — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 08:22:28 +0000

Sorry for the delay in responses everyone.

Matias, thanks for the explanation.

I see your point about having more than one author and losing control of quality. Do you think that having multiple authors results in poorer quality of posts because of the different viewpoints that different posts may offer, instead of a single unified perspective from a single person?

I do see many blogs which get popular and start covering the same grounds repeatedly, using different words, not because they want to, but because they run out of the energy to produce fresh content at a faster pace.

Valerie, thanks for commenting.

Heh, you never told me that. Dreams in CSS: sounds awesome, no? I wonder how people will react if I switch a laugh and saying “bye” with “lol” and “ttyl” in real life. Many people do not know what they stand for.

Also, I think it is both cool and scary that someone can come up to you and recognize you because of your website. Did they notice you because of your flickr pictures?

Cadmium Plating, thanks for coming and commenting. Wow, 15 hours a day is a lot of time according to many standards.

Yes, heh, I can relate to “I will just google it.” Or even “Ok, I do have a paper and pen, but I don’t want to write it down. Just e-mail it to me.”

Do you stay online more for your plating work or for random non-work related things?

swollenpickles, thanks for the comment. I am sure there are support groups out there. This very comment of yours can count as being part of the support group at The Reasoner, no?

How many hours do you usually spend online?

Thanks everyone.

By: swollenpickles

swollenpickles — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 13:06:20 +0000

I think I am officially addicted. Is there a support group I can join?

By: valerie

valerie — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:44:18 +0000

Oh, here’s another one — you know it’s too much if you are out on the street and someone you don’t know approaches you, addresses you by name, introduces himself and says, “I’ve seen your websites.” hehehehehehehe, yes, this happened to me a couple of months ago

By: Cadmium Plating

Cadmium Plating — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:25:11 +0000

Love this. I am online about 15 hours a day and sometimes more between work and home. How about this one:
if you are out talking to people and you don’t know something and think ” I will just google it” until you realize you are not in front of a computer.

By: valerie

valerie — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:31:18 +0000

Did I tell you that the night before my test for my CCNA 1 certification that I dreamed about dancing MAC addresses? I’ve also had dreams in CSS, ha!

AND… can you believe it - the other day I was going to the post office and I seriously had to stop myself from saying “LOL.”

By: Matias

Matias — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:42:36 +0000

All other things being equal, someone who posts more frequently is going to have poorer posts. Some blogs get around this by having guest posters, or having multiple writers, but then you start to get the problem that the quality might deteriorate because of this.

Also, depending on the subject of a fast moving blog, it can quickly be that the postings start to cover the same ground.