Don’t be surprised when you get left behind

Stop the presses Excellent quote from one of my daily reads, talking about blogs.

If you think this is just a game of bubbles, bandwagons, favoritism and knowing the right people, as opposed to having good ideas and plain old hard work- Fine, go ahead and believe it. Nobody cares. Just don’t be surprised when you get left behind, same as you did every other time the world changed.

Sometimes I think that what drives the nay-sayers is simple “fear of looking dumb”. They seem to be afraid they’ll start doing something just when it stops being popular, and so they’ll look dumb. Sometimes I think that it is just a driving need to fill column inches with text, even if it doesn’t mean much.

For what it is worth, I don’t care if “Blogs as a business model” has “peaked”. If it has, then some of the heart-not-in-it folks will drop off and clear the air a bit. You can’t force a good blog, and it is painful to see some people try, convinced that it will be profitable if they can just force it long enough.

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The Creativity Factory » Is blogging a waste of time?
April 27th, 2006 20:23
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[…] Marketer’s Eye points out: For what it is worth, I don’t care if “Blogs as a business model” has “peaked”. If it has, then some of the heart-not-in-it folks will drop off and clear the air a bit. You can’t force a good blog, and it is painful to see some people try, convinced that it will be profitable if they can just force it long enough. […]