Comments on: Focus? What’s Focus? Do I Have It? http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/ .: Don't go in the water! :. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 09:18:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: midnightferret http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3569 midnightferret Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:01:32 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/#comment-3569 Brien, I especially liked the gratuitous use of "shall" in your goth poetry. You will win this month's competition on such a website. I hope your prize is a goth-loli outfit. Brien,
I especially liked the gratuitous use of “shall” in your goth poetry. You will win this month’s competition on such a website. I hope your prize is a goth-loli outfit.

]]> By: Rudy http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3514 Rudy Mon, 04 Feb 2008 07:05:05 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/#comment-3514 Keep it clean and civil. Works all the time for me! :-) Keep it clean and civil. Works all the time for me! :-)

]]> By: Brien http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/comment-page-1/#comment-3512 Brien Mon, 04 Feb 2008 05:48:39 +0000 http://midnightferret.com/2008/02/03/focus-whats-focus-do-i-have-it/#comment-3512 I can't remember what blog software you're running now, but most can tag entries as belonging to certain categories. The nice thing about that versus a seperate blog is that sometimes you may discuss something that falls into more than one topic of conversation - tagging them instead of seperating them makes them easier to find. As far as making money off of a blog, here's my unsolicited $0.02 - do it, but don't make a business out of it. I think somebody had written an article in Wired recently about trying to blog for money, and it eventually got to the point where he wasn't happy with himself because he found himself compromising his values to make a buck. What I did when I still had my blog up and running was just list out all of the stuff I already had, with links to Amazon. This had a three-fold rational: 1) People could see what I already had. If they wanted to borrow something that I might have, they could check the list first and know what I had and what I didn't. Also, this allowed them to avoid buying me something as a gift that I already had. 2) It allowed people to know what I liked and get a better understanding of who I was (sounds shallow, but if you like something, that's a small indication of who you are - at least, just as much as, say, posting on somebody's blog) 3) People who liked me or at least liked the things I liked could make a value judgement of whether they might like something based on that list. At least this way it's no different than me telling somebody about a book or movie I really liked, except that in this case I get about $0.02 back, which I can then use on dispensing my unsolicted advice. *grin* <em>Insanity is such a sweet pill to take Memory shall be gone, no gods shall be awake</em> Oh, sorry, I meant to post that on the goth poetry website (how embarassing!) I can’t remember what blog software you’re running now, but most can tag entries as belonging to certain categories. The nice thing about that versus a seperate blog is that sometimes you may discuss something that falls into more than one topic of conversation – tagging them instead of seperating them makes them easier to find.

As far as making money off of a blog, here’s my unsolicited $0.02 – do it, but don’t make a business out of it. I think somebody had written an article in Wired recently about trying to blog for money, and it eventually got to the point where he wasn’t happy with himself because he found himself compromising his values to make a buck. What I did when I still had my blog up and running was just list out all of the stuff I already had, with links to Amazon. This had a three-fold rational:

1) People could see what I already had. If they wanted to borrow something that I might have, they could check the list first and know what I had and what I didn’t. Also, this allowed them to avoid buying me something as a gift that I already had.
2) It allowed people to know what I liked and get a better understanding of who I was (sounds shallow, but if you like something, that’s a small indication of who you are – at least, just as much as, say, posting on somebody’s blog)
3) People who liked me or at least liked the things I liked could make a value judgement of whether they might like something based on that list. At least this way it’s no different than me telling somebody about a book or movie I really liked, except that in this case I get about $0.02 back, which I can then use on dispensing my unsolicted advice. *grin*

Insanity is such a sweet pill to take
Memory shall be gone, no gods shall be awake

Oh, sorry, I meant to post that on the goth poetry website (how embarassing!)

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