Was it THX or Dolby that first started running those short promotional clips before the movie started touting how incredible the sound system is? “The audience is listening” is my memory of one of the tag lines. (Per Google, it’s THX.) I still think my audience can be counted on two hands, but there’s at least one more reader in the ‘audience’… my father. Hello!
Who knew he was going to Google me? With a name like John Roberts, it’s close to Googling for John Doe, but it worked well enough, I guess. Not sure what terms he used, but he found me via my comments about Chuq Von Rospach’s note about a CNET.com review. Always good to get a reminder that anything you say is public if you put it on the web. I try and write that way most of the time, conscious of the possible misconceptions, but you can’t stop just because you’re worried. I stop — or, more accurately, don’t start — because it’s hard to justify the time for this against all the other things I’d like to be doing, or should be doing. Like updating my daughter’s website, for instance, rather than this journal.
But all the same… greetings to my father.
I also had lunch this week with a friend I haven’t seen for a few months, and we talked about blogs and business. I don’t connect those topics much in my writing here, but the appeal of making a blog work as a business (hint: not so simple) glitters like false gold, unless you’re going to work at it. Best of luck to Mark with HotelChatter.com, and to Vin with Sportscolumn.com, but micro-content is not micro-work. I’ve got a day job which gets me going, so I’ll just continue dabbling here, wandering about in the intersection of the personal, professional, and everything in between.